Story by Sandra Evangelina García Quinoa, asparagus, brussel sprouts, curry sauce. And sancocho, the classic meat-based stew of many a Latin Caribbean home. Any sense of what these might all have in common? These are all the new dishes…
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Story by Sandra Evangelina García “I just want the world to see our perspective and understand where we come from,” says Dark. For Dominican people living in America, Washington Heights is their own little Santo Domingo. For Dark, it’s…
Story by Sandra Evangelina García and Debralee Santos Photo by Rafael Fernández When Manuel Jacobo Méndez Olivero was sworn in this past Mon., Dec. 17th, there were a few key elements on the program for the newly minted State…
Story, photos and video by Sherry Mazzocchi At a recent dinner party, William Alicea told his guests that doctors said he had cancer again. Now, he’s undergoing outpatient chemotherapy treatments. This summer, Alicea was treated for leukemia at Mount…
Story and photos by Robin Elisabeth Kilmer 2142 Amsterdam Avenue has stood vacant for 18 years. But its days of being a pile of rubble are numbered. In early 2014, the vacant lot, along with two other abutting lots,…
Story and photos by Robin Elisabeth Kilmer It was the first day of school at Democracy Prep – and already the students were getting a talking-to in the school gymnasium. This was no run-of-the-mill lecture, however. Parents were invited…
Story & Photo by Sandra E. García The Sugar Hill neighborhood of northern Manhattan just got a little sweeter. This past Thurs., July 19th, community leaders, residents and elected officials broke ground on what was once a parking lot…
Story, video and photos by Sherry Mazzocchi It was a sad week for uptown bookstores. On the same day that Washington Heights’ Word Up received a termination notice from their landlord, Harlem’s Hue-Man Bookstore and Café announced they would…
Story, photos and video by Sherry Mazzocchi Teofilo Olivieri judges a book by its cover. He doesn’t care about what’s inside. He rips out the pages and recycles them. Then he lays the cover flat and transforms it into…
By Marisol Rodríguez The large, affordable apartment spaces of Inwood’s pre-war buildings may have been what attracted theater professionals James Bosley and Rik Walter to relocate uptown, but it was Inwood’s Isham Park where their paths eventually crossed, thanks…