Friend of the UC and talented novelist Jon Michaud penned an outstanding piece in The New Yorker on the closure of Uptown institution Coogan’s due to the covid-19 pandemic. The piece will quite literally break your heart. Coogan’s is such…
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Richard Brody of The New Yorker penned an excellent piece on the work of the phenomenal filmmaker/photographer Khalik Allah. Mr. Brody delves into Allah’s “Camera Ministry” and the obvious love he has for the folks he photographs. You see,…
By Jon Michaud My mother-in-law, Grecia Solano, immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic, in the late nineteen-sixties. For the past forty years, she has lived in an apartment in Washington Heights, where she enjoys a view…
La Tierra de Azteca is not alone. Among the many relief efforts undertaken locally, Mexican-born artist Andrea Arroyo has created a series of prints to raise funds for victims of the earthquake in Mexico. A Washington Heights resident, Arroyo…
Felipe Galindo (Feggo) is a graphic and visual artist whose work has been published by The New Yorker, among other publications. These images were submitted in the wake of the decision by the Trump administration to rescind the DACA…
Junot Díaz penned an absoulte must-read in the New Yorker. Click below and make it happen. Read more: Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump’s America We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Washington Heights resident, Karen Russell, has the literary world abuzz with her debut novel Swamplandia!. Just last year, Karen was featured in the The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue and her novel recently…