The Manhattan Times

One job is all Willie Ford ever needed. In a world where the Department of Labor reports that workers in Ford’s generation held an average of 10.8 jobs over their working life, Ford is certainly an aberration.

Starting in Inwood, a Brooklyn blogger has set out to eat his way through every pizzeria in the city. He  goes only by Colin, lest pizzeria owners catch onto his identity and begin to serve him a “dishonestly good slice.”

Assembly Member Adriano Espaillat was named Chair of the Assembly’s Standing Committee on Small Business by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Thu., March 4.

Due to a less than expected number of entries, the local nonprofit Artists Unite has extended its deadline for local artists who want to contribute to its Subway Elevator Poster Project. Artists now have until March 19 to submit their work for the exhibition, which starts in April. It’s the second phase of the project – work from Community District 12 artists is displayed in poster form in the W. 181st Street and W. 190th Street A-train station elevators.

Six posters selected by an Artists Unite panel and approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will be displayed in the elevators starting in April.
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Obesity, a plague in Northern Manhattan and in the Latino population in general, comes from a lack of exercise and poor food choices. A new campaign from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is hoping to change those ingrained habits with a new social marketing campaign, which kicked off on Sat., March 6.