BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Listen, I get it. “Already living in a dictatorship” sounds harsh. Needlessly alarmist. Overblown even. But if I may. We are living through an out-of-control pandemic with a near depression walloping the economy and we…
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The newly rebuilt elevators at the 181 Street station for the A train are now operating. On Monday, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) announced that the elevators, which had been unavailable since August 2019 as part of an extensive…
My niece Mia w/ her copy of @ManhattanTimes featuring cover art by @andreaarroyoart honoring the courage displayed by @AOC on the House Floor. https://t.co/aLxxbmrR4g — Juan Rosa (@JuanRosa_NYC) August 3, 2020 We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Good Liars (@tglnyc) on Jul 4, 2020 at 2:21pm PDT We are now less than one hundred days away from either ending our long national…
By Gregg McQueen View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jason Jaye (@jayeuptown) on Jul 13, 2020 at 7:26am PDT The legal battle over the city’s attempt to rezone Inwood is headed to the state’s highest court.…
By Gregg McQueen A coalition of teachers, health care professionals, parents and students have launched a petition asking Mayor Bill de Blasio to rethink the city’s plan to reopen public schools in September. Led by the Movement of Rank…
150,000 human beings lost. 150,000 parents, siblings, children spouses, grandparents, best friends. 150,000 souls. 💔 — Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) July 29, 2020 We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter & Instagram or e-mail…
The coronavirus is not going to go away without all of us doing our part. Don’t let the outdoor dining fool you. NYC is no longer the epicenter of this pandemic, but the COVID-19 has simply relocated to more…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The year was 1965. Segregation was the established law of the land in the south. Good old American Apartheid was in full and brutal effect in Dixie. Jim Crow, the Southern system of terror designed…
An appeals court has reinstated the city’s plan to rezone Inwood. In a unanimous 5-0 ruling issued on Thursday, a panel of New York State Appellate Court judges reversed an earlier decision by a lower court to nullify the…