This just in from the Word Up volunteer collective: We have been granted a small extension at our current location and will be allowed to remain through August 31st! Thanks to the generosity and hard work of our friends, neighbors,…
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Sherry Mazzocchi
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 sherrymazzocchi Check out: Help WiLL TeeZ – Beloved Local Figure Fights Leukemia Uptown Twitter Love: @WillTeeZ I Am Uptown – Will Alicea We invite you to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us…
By Sherry Mazzocchi Word Up is still accepting donations–but isn’t clear where they will go. The popular Washington Heights community bookstore received notice Tues., July 3rd that their lease would terminate in thirty days, and that they would need…
Story and video by Sherry Mazzocchi A supernova is the dramatic death of a star—an explosion visible from thousands of light years away. For Carla Lynne Hall, the astronomical event has a double meaning. The title track of her…
Story, photos & video by Sherry Mazzocchi On Saturday afternoons, the ping of xylophones and a steady merengue beat emanate from the fourth floor of the St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church in Washington Heights. Feel free to stand at…