BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) on Apr 15, 2020 at 6:18pm PDT I think I speak for many in this neighborhood and throughout this great city when I…
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Please join us for a lively and informed discussion on the crucial importance of the Census 2020. The panel includes Maria Lizardo, Aldrin R. Bonilla and Julio C. Rivera and will be moderated by our Editor-in-Chief Led Black. RSVP:…
A new benefits package has been announced for the family of transit workers whose lives were lost to COVID-19. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU), the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and…
By Sherry Mazzocchi No one is allowed to visit the thousands of New Yorkers hospitalized with COVID-19. Dr. Jenny Chang saw many patients admitted without cell phones, leaving them out of touch with those they need most. Chang is…
To celebrate Immigrant Heritage Week 2020, the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs gave a well-deserved shout out to the beloved Buunni Coffee. We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter & Instagram or e-mail us…
From laps to labs. The indoor practice bubble at Columbia University’s Baker Athletics Complex in Inwood, which features a world-class track, is being repurposed into a field hospital to care for COVID-19 patients. NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) has partnered with Columbia…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) “Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there’s always tomorrow Lean on me, when you’re not strong And I’ll be your…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I fall asleep to sirens. I wake up to sirens. The sirens are incessant. The sirens, at least in NYC, are the soundtrack to this pandemic. The sirens are constant and what you start to…
Friend of the UC and talented novelist Jon Michaud penned an outstanding piece in The New Yorker on the closure of Uptown institution Coogan’s due to the covid-19 pandemic. The piece will quite literally break your heart. Coogan’s is such…
By Debralee Santos Cari was one of six transit workers – and the only woman – reported dead in New York City this past week. The other TWU members who died were Stations Department Supervisor Victor Zapana, Bus Operator…