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Save The Date: 10/5/2013 – Chalk Field Day @ Highbridge Park

A Word From CHALK CHALK is hosting a free Field Day on Saturday, October 5, 2013 from 11a-3p at Highbridge Park’s baseball field in Washington Heights.  We expect a large number of families and children from Northern Manhattan to…

Heineken Ritmo Sonico Festival

The Heineken Ritmo Sonico Festival – The Recap

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) It never fails, once September rolls around I get a bad case of the end-of-summer blues. Then like clockwork, I get a reminder that while summer may be over, that good old Uptown magic remains.…

Riverside Jam 2013 – A Night To Remember…

BY Jon Ullman (@gogoPatienceCnP) I preface this by telling you I am a big fan of Hex Hector’s. I discovered him, along with most people who know his work from back in the day, in the mid-90’s. Unbreak My…

Pics From The People: The Harvest Dome 2.0

Today in Inwood @Uptowncollectiv off Indian Road pic.twitter.com/3WrZjwYzBc — AFineLyne (@afinelyne) August 25, 2013 If you want to submit your pics for this column, just hit us up on Twitter using @Uptowncollectiv or shoot us an email at UptownCollective@gmail.com…

Hex Hector Julio Rodriguez Riverside Jam

8/24/13: Hex Hector & Julio Rodriguez Present Riverside

The word on the street is that Hex Hector and Julio Rodriguez have once again teamed up to bring back the Riverside Jams this coming Saturday night. We can’t, for a whole host of reasons, tell you where it…

Fort Tryon Park

NYC & Company Shows Love To Washington Heights

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) NYC GO is the official tourism guide for the city of New York and for the month of August they are showing love to our beloved hood with an in-depth and interactive look at the…

UPinion: Let’s Keep Making NYC Greener | The Manhattan Times

Written by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and NYRP Executive Director Amy Freitag. If you want to know what real change looks like, just walk the streets of Northern Manhattan, where hundreds of new trees line the sidewalks as living symbols…

Morris Jumel Mansion - 2013 Uptown Arts Stroll

Uptown Video: The Morris-Jumel Mansion

The good folks at Channel Thirteen and PBS showed the oldest house in Manhattan, the Morris Jumel Mansion, some love recently. In the informative video, the Director of Education and Public Programs at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, Carol Ward, gives…

Green Gym Day @ Fort Tryon Park

Green Gym Day @ Fort Tryon Park On Sunday, June 9th

Green Gym Day is based on a simple philosophy: parks and other outdoor spaces offer you fun opportunities to be physically active while giving you extra health benefits of being outdoors in nature. Right outside your door are great…