The Manhattan Times

Neighborhood Blogwatch

by Carla Zanoni

Paz’s New York Minute

Some New York City blogs explore the sights of this urban landscape through its culture, events and activities, others through stories its citizens like to tell. “Paz’s New York Minute” explores those happenings through rich, iconic photographs of the people who live here, some of which feature the beauty that is only found in Washington Heights. 

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Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher is a corner of the Internet where writers, poets and dreamers explore the universe. In this posting we find Joy Leftow, the writer whose partner coined her Washington Height’s poet laureate (which gets me thinking individual neighborhoods should have poet laureates, but I digress), musing on Washington Heights as her home, comfort and place of constant change. “I still live in the area where I was born in Washington Heights,” she writes. “I wonder if it's like at the end of the galaxy where the further away you live from where you were born, the more chaos you create in the universe.” 

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Fusion on the Fly

Creating the best you can, with what you have, based on what you know.

Karl Wilder is originally from the south, but at age 11 moved to Minnesota, a place he write is the “land of white people and white food – white bread, white gravy, and white meat. This is a place where rosemary is ‘spicy.’” Today he lives in New York City and writes about his cooking life here. In this post he ventures to Inwood for a visit to the Farmer’s Market where he demonstrated three dishes made from the market’s bounty.

“If any of you have never been to Inwood you are in for a treat,” he writes. “It is one of the most beautiful parts of Manhattan. Green space abounds. Bring a backpack for your veg and go for a walk in the woods after the demo.”

It’s nice to have someone from outside of the area recognize the gem that is Inwood, but you already knew that, didn’t you?

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