Shout out to our good friend Carolina “Miss Rizos” Contreras who never ceases to amaze us. On top of running a Miss Rizos salon in the Dominican Republic and here Uptown, she was recently named a Tory Burch Foundation…
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In this episode the crew talks about Rachel receiving two speeding tickets within minutes of one another, Jaime getting hooked on Hallmark, and Frank going on a weekend trip to Connecticut. On this week’s BOCHINCHE BITES, Jaime dishes on…
East Harlem small businesses are eligible for a $4 million grant program to help them recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. A joint effort by Union Settlement, City Councilmember Diana Ayala, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and the NYC Economic…
Listen up people, you have until November 29, 2020 to catch La Madrina: The [Savage] Life of Lorrine Padilla at the DOC NYC film festival. A film by Uptown’s own Raquel Cepeda and Henry Chalfant, La Madrina is a…
DJ Kayslay is “Rolling 50 Deep,” with literally 50 emcees rolling through this @BenjiFilmz-directed visual. Not just any 50 emcees but some big names show up in this almost 20 minute cypher. We invite you to subscribe to the…
About an hour ago, I was traveling from the Capitol to the Hyatt hotel when a MAGA demonstrator, screaming from a microphone, called me a "homeboy in a suit." Sorry MAGA but the name is Congressman-elect Ritchie Torres. —…
Photographer Ramon Brito made a cool video of his assignment to cover a Lin-Manuel Miranda event at the United Palace for the Manhattan Times. We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) Our long national nightmare is over. Or is it? The Tyrant has been given a decisive blow. Or has he? What we do know for…
Belkis Lora still remembers the last time she saw her brother, José Franciso Lora. It was just moments before he died. He was a passenger on Flight 587, and they were together just before the flight’s take-off from John…
Our Uptown Time Machine takes us back to May of 2010 for a cool video from WNYC that explores the live music scene at the 27 De Febrero Restaurant. That restaurant, which was an Uptown institution, has disappeared like…