When Hurricane María hit the island, Melody Rose Vendrell waited it out with her family. Born and raised in Vega Baja, on Puerto Rico’s northern coast,..
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The Uptown Collective – The Recap 12-31 to 1-5
Nerds of color rejoice! The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture invites comic book fans of all ages to participate in its 7th Annual Black Comic Book Festival. The festival will be held on Friday, January 18 from 12 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
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El desfile parranda
The new year will be days in – and uptown, the party will have just begun.The 42nd Three Kings Day Celebration again kicks...
Foam ban looms in new year
Prohibición de espuma se avecina en Año Nuevo
Falafel Tarboosh, un lugar para llevar sándwiches de pita rellenos, vende una gran cantidad ...
Re-examining the Rezoning
Reexaminando la rezonificación
After “exhaustive and ultimately futile” requests for the city to thoroughly examine the impacts of rezoning Inwood...
Barbot named city’s new Health Commissioner
Barbot nombrada nueva comisionada de salud
"Orgullosa de ser una pediatra puertorriqueña debutando el primer informe de @nycHealthy...
Uptown Anchor
Ancla en el Alto
Es hora de hacer lo nuevo de nuevo. El comisionado de Parques de la ciudad de Nueva York, Mitchell J. Silver, anunció que la reconstrucción...
Suicide and the Holidays
El suicidio y las fiestas
Suicide is more common around the holidays, right? Wrong.
New leadership at Street Vendor Project
Nuevo liderazgo en SVP
Sean Basinski, fundador del Proyecto de Vendedores Ambulantes (SVP, por sus siglas en inglés), un grupo de miembros que aboga por...
Hail Mary
Poppins en el Palacio
It was the best day of his life. That was one young boy’s review of his experience with Mary Poppins Returns, which had its pre-release ...
Keeping the Caretakers
Manteniendo a los cuidadores
Losing just one nurse can cost a hospital up to $100,000 in sunk costs. To combat those losses and help promote job retention, the de Blasio administration...
A Crumbling CUNY?
¿CUNY derrumbándose?
Reduced funding at the City University of New York (CUNY) colleges means shorter library hours. Since many CUNY students , shorter hours could place their education...