A Word From Word Up Books Help us remain closed and healthy as an organization, until we can safely and responsibly reopen for our community! In June 2020, Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria will celebrate its ninth birthday. Since…
Browsing Tag
Coronavirus
By Gregg McQueen and Debralee Santos Overlooking Highbridge Park, the building is an unassuming structure tucked into a quiet, leafy intersection on Edgecombe Avenue. It once served as the 100-bed Mother Cabrini Memorial Hospital, one of the numerous facilities…
What's up with antibody tests? What do they really tell you? Who should get one? What's the connection to plasma donation and what's that all about? Here are some answers. 1/ — Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) May 12, 2020…
View this post on Instagram NYC BODEGAS be like.. who can relate? #NYC #TikTok #LaughterHeals #bodega A post shared by Fiona Harvey, MPH 🌎 📖🎋 (@fionaharvey_) on May 9, 2020 at 6:23pm PDT We invite you to subscribe to…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by FAKE (@iamfake) on Mar 30, 2020 at 11:43am PDT According to the models the Trump administration was touting just a few weeks ago, the death toll…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by @shootbyallmeans on May 5, 2020 at 1:57pm PDT We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter & Instagram…
Have you seen ¡Uptown Palante! With Mino Lora yet? Well, what are you waiting for? In these dark days, we all need a little Uptown Love and light. Every week we highlight and amplify the stories of joy and…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mark D. Levine (@marklevinenyc) on Nov 5, 2019 at 5:08am PST Our must-read for this week comes from Richard Morgan of the Washington Post for his excellent piece on Uptown’s…
Local elected officials are seeking a full investigation after reports surfaced that as many as 98 residents died of COVID-19 at Isabella Geriatric Center in Washington Heights. A NY1 report on April 30 revealed that 98 residents at the…
Twice as terrible. A new study details stark differences in coronavirus-related hospitalization and death rates throughout New York City boroughs – with the Bronx especially ravaged. Published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the…