By Arlene Schulman “There are no strangers here. Only friends you haven’t met yet.” William Butler Yeats Coogan’s story begins in 1985 in Washington Heights in a New York City community overwhelmed by gunfire, drugs, riots, and homicides, and…
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Fill out the form- and your appetite. To motivate the 50% of all city residents who have yet to respond to the U.S. Census, a new partnership between NYC Census 2020 and food delivery service Seamless has been struck.…
Journalist, broadcaster and author, Farai Chideya penned a power piece in the Washington Post that delves on how the pandemic has exposed the festering inequality that is so pronounced in our beloved New York City. This sentence from the…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) May 19th was the 95th anniversary of the birth of the late, great Malcolm X. Malcolm X changed my life. The Autobiography of Malcolm X written with Alex Haley literally put the Black in Led Black. The book which has sold…
Ezra Klein penned a superb piece in Vox that perfectly and succinctly sums up our predicament. It’s not just that we are living through a pandemic but that we are living through a pandemic with Trump as President. Every…
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Listen up familia, you have until May 26th to submit your artwork for the #InwoodStrong Restaurant Poster contest. The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, through a NYC Small Business Services Neighborhood 360 grant, is working with the Washington Heights BID…
Here is the latest episode of ¡Uptown Palante! With Mino Lora. Stay tuned for some exciting news on this important neighborhood program.…
There is a bit more support for the sorrow. Greater assistance is being provided by the city to aid families in need who are grappling with the loss of loved ones in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. The…
It’ll be a service of swabs and swipes. All residents are welcome to take advantage of a new partnership between Governor Andrew Cuomo and SOMOS, a nonprofit network of over 2,500 physicians, which will bring 28 new COVID-19 test…