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Middle
and high schoolers enrolled in the Lang Youth Medical Program received their
name pins, short or long lab coats at a ceremony at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
on Oct. 5. PHOTO: NYPH
Julio Pumarol, 12, wants to be a heart surgeon. Amada Caba, 15, wants to be a psychiatrist. These dreams, however are not just wistful musings – Pumarol and Caba are working towards them. They even have a white lab coat already.
The safety fencing planned for the High Bridge
is composed of a material that will maximize views – but the idea of a fence
was met with dismay by residents at a recent meeting.
One ugly aspect of the city’s plans for restoring the High Bridge – the long-closed historic footpath that connects the Bronx to Northern Manhattan – has run afoul of community members.
Columbia University said it would consider letting residents
use some of its facilities, like the track, if the community approved a
modification to the zoning on the property, which would allow a new
47,000 square foot athletic facility to be built.
If Columbia University can’t provide the kind of waterfront access required by law to build its new 47,000 square foot athletic complex at Baker Field, then the community wants a better neighbor and open doors to use some of the university’s athletic facilities.
Only half of Tina Salva’s bathing chair fits in
the newly installed bathtubs at 452
Ft. Washington Ave. – however for the past two
years many of the tenants of have had no bathrooms.
by Juliana Schatz
Visit the home of Gladys Salva these days and she is likely to run you a bath. With the sound of water splashing to fill the tub, she demonstrates how the new plumbing operates.
The Good Shepherd Men’s Club is hosting a concert by Orville Davis and the Wild Bunch to benefit the church’s parochial school. The Oct. 16 performance costs $25 and will include a buffet, beer, wine and soft drinks.
High school juniors and seniors living in Washington Heights and Inwood who apply to Columbia University are eligible for the Dyckman Institute Scholarship. Last year 21 undergrad students received over $680,000 in need-based scholarships from Columbia. Local applicants who are accepted to Columbia and apply for financial aid are automatically considered for the Dyckman Institute Scholarship.
Christ Community United Church in collaboration with the Harambee Arts Program will provide an afterschool enrichment and tutoring program starting Tue., Oct. 12 at 3 p.m.
Firefighters turn on a fire hydrant to douse the flames pouring from a bodega at 4791 Broadway. PHOTO: Luis de la Luz.
Dominoes Customer Service Representative Luis de la Luz smelled the smoke before he saw it, and popped out of the pizzeria to see yellow smoke pouring from the air conditioner of the bodega next door.
At its September general meeting Community Board 12 approved a resolution asking City Planning to study the rezoning of three areas of Northern Manhattan to bring them more in line with the uses of the neighborhood.
The painting could be a study in the many shades and variations of gray. The deepest gather at the top, suggesting storm clouds directly overhead. Lighter grays, and the subtlest hint of pink and gold touch the underside of the clouds and melt away into the distance, right above a thin line of rooftops.
Neil Rubler,
chief executive officer and president of Vantage Residential, speaks at the
opening reception for nine Latino artists exhibiting in one of the his
companies vacant storefronts on Broadway.
It’s long vexed local artists that so many potential exhibition spaces – the vacant storefronts scattered throughout the neighborhood – would go unused. But on Oct. 5 three vacant stores owned by Vantage Residenial began hosting a group show of 10 local Latino artists with a packed house opening reception.
From end to end W. 181st Street is just a half mile long, but in a car or a bus it can take more than 30 minutes to traverse.
by Emily Liedel
W. 181st Street is 11 blocks and little over half a mile long between Riverside Drive and Amsterdam Avenue. It is the economic center of a neighborhood with a quarter million people, and is the local street above the busiest stretch of the busiest road in America – I-95.
Indian
Road Café owner Jason Minter pulls down a pint of
Sam Adams Oktoberfest. During the weekend of Oct. 16 and 17 polka music will
fill the restaurant as he serves up traditional knockwurst and bratwurst and
all the sides.
There is nothing quite like a bratwurst. There just isn’t. Paired with some spicy brown mustard and a good German beer and polka music – like the Oktoberfest celebration that Indian Road Cafe has in store this weekend – and you might just think the lazy Harlem River wandering past Inwood Hill Park is the Rhine.
With Mother Nature smiling from on high, hundreds of families descended on Bennett Park on Sat., Oct. 9 for the ninth annual Harvest Festival, begun in 2002 by local parents and supported by area businesses.
To the Editor:
I am writing to respond to the cold and disrespectful way I feel the death of Emmanuel Paulino was covered in the latest issue of the Manhattan Times (“Police warn, Taser and then shoot knife-wielding Vermilyea Avenue man,” October 6, 2010).
October 4 – October 9
We began the week with an incredible photo essay by the truly talented Briana E. Heard on the Medieval Festival, which took place at Fort Tryon Park on October 3. Briana’s amazing pictures are a feast for the eyes and manage to capture the verve and the pageantry of the festival.
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