Ain’t no party like a census party because a census party provides crucial resources to your community. Shout out to the LOL gang, The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) and the office of Manhattan Borough President Gale A Brewer…
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BY Led Black (@Led_Black) This past weekend marked the culmination of something that was set in motion at the very beginning of the rule of Tyrant Trump. My wife, in her infinite wisdom, decided that we needed an escape…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dan Davenport (@dandavenportnyc) on Jul 8, 2020 at 7:20am PDT Isabel Wilkerson is a stone-cold, intellectual powerhouse. Her magnum opus, The Warmth of Other Suns, is a straight up tour…
View this post on Instagram DE LA COMUNIDAD, PARA LA COMUNIDAD ✊🏽 Recently came across @theuptownfridge, a free food fridge on the corner of Dongan Pl & Broadway in the Heights. This is what happens when community comes together,…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) on Jul 1, 2019 at 6:25pm PDT Being that the In The Heights film has been postponed until 2021 because of the pandemic. Damn you pandemic. What…
Prior to 1827, the Dyckmans, and other Uptown families, made use of enslaved labor. Today the Dyckman Farmhouse has been preserved as museum on Broadway and West 204th Street in the Inwood section of northern Manhattan. The cemetery where…
Inexcusable, graceless, and perplexing. When a corporation with a predominately Latino customer base chooses to embrace the most vile, xenophobic, racist and predatory political figure of this era, its disqualifying. The Latino community will remember this @Goyafoods#Goyaway https://t.co/CKhg14IpLZ —…
It’ll be an autumn to remember. At a press conference on Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his administration’s plan to reopen public schools in September, which includes a combination of remote and in-person learning and the staggering of…
By Gregg McQueen When the city’s latest budget was approved on July 1, it included $51 million for the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). The funding came as a relief to many after Mayor Bill de Blasio had initially…
This goes SO hard. Shout out to Patogeno Musa and AcentOh for repping Afro-Latinidad so powerfully and properly. We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter &…