Shout out to local historian Cole Thompson for another awesome video that takes us back in time to the Uptown that once was. This one is a brief history of the Miramar Saltwater Pool, which was once located in…
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By Gregg McQueen Black business matters too. A recent virtual panel discussion delved into the experience of Black restaurant and bar owners in New York City. With the national spotlight focused on racial equality, entrepreneurs called on New Yorkers…
It’s help for home. An emergency rental assistance program to assist New Yorkers who lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been announced. Designed to keep low-income tenants in their homes, the COVID Rent Relief Program will provide…
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…
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…