The 90’s was a wild era in the history of Uptown in general and Washington Heights in particular. At that time Washington Heights was the epicenter of the wholesale and retail drug trade for the region. Folks came from…
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The 90’s was a wild era in the history of Uptown in general and Washington Heights in particular. At that time Washington Heights was the epicenter of the wholesale and retail drug trade for the region. Folks came from…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Emil Baez (@_EBaez) On a wickedly frigid night last week, Thursday, January 24th to be exact, Trouble In The Heights, the United Palace and Washington Heights made history. Trouble In The Heights became the…
Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy)…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The film begins, as all movies should, with the looming George Washington Bridge as a backdrop. Javy, masterfully played by the young, 13-year-old phenomenon Antonio Ortiz, comes across a bag full of illicit cash that…
Monday, 11/21/11 Dear Led: Has the week gone by already? I don’t want to write this letter to you because maybe if I don’t write it then we won’t have to go home. Our third and last screening is…
Sunday, 11/20/11 Dear Led: One of these days I swear I’m going to get some sleep. We were up with the birds today to do a live morning television show, Diario del 4. Angel, our festival guide (with me…
Saturday, 11/19/11 Dear Led: Remember the seafood dinner we had Tuesday night? Don’t worry, everybody’s fine. Everybody that didn’t eat the “grilled” lobster (me), that is, so I’ve been a little, um, under the weather all day Thursday. As…
Friday, 11/18/11 Dear Led: Exhausted and loving it. We drove down from Puerto Plata Wednesday for the Opening Night Gala in Santo Domingo. What a beautiful part of the world, and what a change of scenery from one end…