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Josie Ashton, wearing the black head scarf, explains that she began the Brides March when, after Ricart’s death, she felt the slain bride was being re-victimized by misrepresentations. Now in its 11th year, the march has grown. “It’s become an international movement,” Ashton said. “We have thousands of women walking in different parts of the world and in different states of America.”
Story by Sherry Mazzocchi and Debralee Santos
Photos by Sherry Mazzocchi
Rising early in the day, Josie Ashton took care in donning the white wedding dress. Cloaked in her formal attire, she traveled to Fort Washington Presbyterian Church in Washington Heights, where she was greeted by others who had gathered together to mark the special day.
Taking up the length of a city block, hundreds of liver cab drivers, base owners, radio dispatchers, and families gathered this past week at Gov. Cuomo’s midtown offices, holding up signs urging Cuomo to sign the bill that would legalize street hails.
Story and photos by Gloria Pazmiño
Hundreds of livery cab drivers gathered in front of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office in Midtown this past Wed., Sept 28th to demand that the governor sign the livery street hail permit legislation which would allow nearly 30,000 livery cabs to perform curb side pickups in Northern Manhattan and the outer boroughs.
The following is a summary of the items presented at the monthly Community Board 12 General Meeting at the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center on Tues., Sept. 27th.
Photos by QPHOTONYC
Be you maiden or knight, wizard or knave, when it hits, there will be no denying the desire to frolic as if in medieval times.
The mojito, the classic Cuban cocktail, consists of white rum, lime or lemon juice, a splash of soda water, and is muddled with sugar and fresh mint leaves. At the Havana Café, it is made in seven different flavors.
mo· ji· to
Noun: A cocktail consisting of white rum, lime or lemon juice, sugar, mint, ice, and carbonated or soda water, and at Havana Café expertly made in seven different flavors.
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In the Bronx, at Havana Café Restaurant and Lounge, the mojito is the most popular and elaborately made drink. It would make the founders of “La Bodeguita del Medio,” the Cuban restaurant staple where legend has it the drink was first created, very proud.
Mino Lora, co-executive director of The People’s Theatre Project gathered the theatre troops this past weekend when Uptown went to Occupy Wall Street.
For three weeks, there has been a protest unfolding on the streets of our city’s financial center downtown. It goes by the name “Occupy Wall Street,” and it has slowly but steadily been growing each day. It has both captured headlines, and has been ignored.
Las tropas del grupo Proyecto Teatro del Pueblo Teatro Popular tomaron el "escenario" en el centro de Zuccotti Park para unirse a los manifestantes de Ocupar Wall Street, y representar a El Alto.
Durante tres semanas, ha habido una protesta que se desarrolla en las calles del centro financiero de nuestra ciudad. Se hace llamar "Ocupar Wall Street", y ha estado lenta pero constantemente creciendo cada día. Ha capturado los titulares y ha sido ignorada.
John Rafael Peralta is founder and principal operator and tour guide of Dynamic Tours, Inc., which takes visitors on a culturally enriching and immersive tour throughout distinct neighborhoods in all corners of New York City – and a far cry from the typical mid- or down- town Manhattan experience.
By Debralee Santos and Adrian Cabreja
Photos by Christopher Auger-Domínguez
For many who come as tourists to New York City, the sights and sounds sought are more likely to be associated with Times Square, Central Park or a window-shopping jaunt down Fifth Avenue – the city as captured by Woody Allen, focused only on Manhattan Island, and only from 96th Street south.
Some years ago, I attended a dinner gathering at the home of a dear family friend. Upon approach, the house exuded the polished warmth and heady fragrance that comes from days of preparation. The windows from which tumbling children could be spotted at a distance gleamed; the wood was burnished from polishing and the linens were iron-crisped.
September 26 – October 1
I have said on many occasions that there is nothing in the world that compares to an Uptown summer. Uptown summers are magical, memorable and magnificent creatures. Certain Uptown summers leave an indelible imprint on your memory. They become the stuff of legend. This summer will go down in history as one such year and the Uptown Collective was there to capture, document and broadcast that kinetic dynamism for the world to see, hear and feel. With that said, check out our site for the Uptown Collective’s annual, multi-media summer retrospective.
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