Washington Heights

Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map: John Randel Jr., and the Manhattan grid

Much of Manhattan was made long in the past--or long enough ago that its boundaries are often seen as acceptable and natural, while the people who live on the fringe (read: above 96th Street) are easily forgotten when defining the character of the city. (This tendency became briefly regretful when, ... More >>

Stopping the Next Plague

Hunting for viruses with Columbia's Simon Anthony

Gonzales-Alvarez Found Guilty in Fatal Stabbing of Bar's Security Guard

The District Attorney's office has announced a guilty verdict in the trial of Jonathan Gonzales-Alvarez, who fatally stabbed a security guard in October 2009. The crime occurred in a bar called La Casa del Mofongo in Washington Heights. The bar was hosting a karaoke and dance contest, and Gonzales- ... More >>

Presenting the Most and Least Compatible New York City Neighborhoods

According to data released to us by OkCupid, some New York City neighborhoods are more likely to make connections on the dating site than others. This may seem intuitive in some ways, but it's better to know these things for sure, right? After all, just like that map that tells us where the single m ... More >>

Jimmy Castor, R.I.P.

Jimmy Castor was a smart aleck; a wise guy; a clean shit-talker with so much joie de vivre you had to laugh even when his truth-telling smacked you upside the head. So when he died this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 71 near his home outside of Las Vegas, far away from the streets of Harlem he o ... More >>

Our 10 Best Soups in NYC

​Polonia's borscht with meat dumplings is so good, you'll want to swim in it. Like the primordial ooze our ancestors crawled out of, soup is a nourishing, regenerative fluid. And when the weather turns cold, there's nothing more revivifying than a great potage - even coming out of a can, it ... More >>

Ydanis Rodriguez, Jumaane Williams and Tish James Introduce Resolution in Support of Occupy Wall Street

C.S. MuncyCouncilman Ydanis Rodriguez at the Nov. 17 OWS Brooklyn Bridge march.​City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez of Washington Heights announced on Twitter this afternoon that he and two other City Councilmembers -- Jumaane Williams and Tish James -- have drafted a resolution in support of Occ ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Target of Fake Twitter Accounts; Convict Says Amanda Knox Is Innocent

via CBS​There's evidence that at least one person was involved in creating two fake Twitter accounts with the intent to gather information about Anthony Weiner, the Times reports. One phony account was of an alleged 16-year-old girl who tried to get Weiner to be her prom date; another one posed as ... More >>

Queens Woman Leaves $250K to Harold Camping; al Qaeda's "Military Brain" Killed

​The family of a woman in Queens is furious after she left nearly $250,000 in her will to bogus Rapture-propagating pastor Harold Camping. Doris Schmitt was 78 and died weeks before the Rapture was supposed to happen. Her family was shocked to discover that she'd left most of her life savings to C ... More >>

Bloomberg's Schools: Is This America?

The handcuffing of a seven-year-old suggests that something is very wrong in New York City

Graham Rayman's "NYPD Tapes" Series Wins Gold Keyboard, NY Press Club's Highest Award

​The 2010 Village Voice series, "The NYPD Tapes," has won the New York Press Club's Gold Keyboard award for outstanding enterprise or investigative reporting. The Gold Keyboard is the top honor the press club gives each year.   The series kicked off in May last year and was written by staff w ... More >>

Today in El Diario: Teacher's Fine for Saying 'Coño' is Slashed

​Teacher's Fine Reduced for Saying 'Coño' A high school history teacher in Washington Heights was fined $1,000 for using a Spanish swear word last year during one of his classes, El Diario reports. But the fine is a steep reduction from what a court had originally ordered that Carlos G ... More >>

Bed Bug Complaints Hint at a Hellacious Summer Infestation

DNAInfo.com​We're into a map that DNAinfo has up today, showing which parts of Manhattan have had the largest numbers of bed bug complaints over the first three months of this year.  According to the news site, Manhattan residents made 455 complaints to 311 about bed bugs for the first thre ... More >>

Today in El Diario: Beauty Salons and Rapists

​Today in El Diario, that newspaper at your bodega you always wondered about... Beauty Salon Queens Washington Heights isn't just known for its bachata and meringue music, reports the Spanish-language daily -- it's also known for its vibrant commerce, especially its booming beauty salon indu ... More >>

10 Crazy Facts Learned From New York City's Complaint Records

​New Yorkers love to complain. When we walk down the street we get sidewalk rage, and when we're at home, we can't stop complaining about everything around our homes. 311 just released an interactive map that lets you track complaints over the past year in categories from noise to traffic and ... More >>

City Going After One of Our 'Ten Worst Landlords' in a Big Way

​The city is starting what appears to be a full court press against a notorious private equity-backed landlord and his network of crumbling buildings in Harlem and Washington Heights. Over the course of two days, October 21 and 22, the city brought housing court repairs lawsuits against seven ... More >>

Elizabeth Lucas: Please Don't Call it "9-11: The Rock Musical"

​A few days after director Elizabeth Lucas interviewed with the New York Times about her upcoming film Clear Blue Tuesday, she says she is disappointed. The Times piece described her film as a "9-11: the rock musical." "Which it's not," she says at the Westin Hotel's lobby on 43rd Street. She ... More >>

NYPD Tapes Part 3: The Real World Effect of Downgrading Crime Complaints

​Part 3 of the Village Voice series the NYPD Tapes examines the real world effect of downgrading crime complaints by looking at how a series of sexual assault-robberies in Washington Heights were downgraded to misdemeanors, allowing a sexual predator to remain at large for two months. Part 1 ... More >>

New Yorkers Are Really Bad at the Census

Just do it. Like, now.​Who cares what time it is. Do you know where your census is? If you're like us, you have not the vaguest idea. You think you mailed it last week, but that whole week was a bit of a fog, and now it's so hot (like, record-breaking hot) that it's hard to make sense of any ... More >>

Things to do on Sunday for (mostly) free

the National Weather Service is promising 82 degrees and disappearing clouds--Broadway on Broadway - the casts from 20 Broadway shows will be performing live on Broadway between 43d and  47th, starting at 11:30. Michael McKean (Spinal Tap, an upcoming play) is hosting.--Brooklyn Book Festival ... More >>

Letters 10.29.08

Signature Foods of the 1980’s

Sigur Ros at the United Palace Theatre

Coney Est Mort, Vive Coney!

Robert Jackson to Audience: "Shut Up"

TABLOIDED: Mixed Bag Monday

Council Hears Pro and Cons of Landlord Harassment Bill

Lee Bollinger's Triumph

Will President Ahmadinejad invite President Bollinger to speak in Tehran?

On the Taco Trail

Our restaurant critic goes hunting on Roosevelt Avenue

The Tentacles of Foreigners

Highbrow? Lowbrow? New York welcomes Spaceman Blues's alien invasion.

Letters

Pushed Off the Pinnacle

Tenants accuse mega-landlord of forcing them out

Grandma Godsend

Hand-knitted scarves—minus the knitting

Vale of Cashmere

My father carved animal soaps. Every month there was a new animal

Golden Oldies

Retracing life's journeys, proving youth ain't everything

Letters

Letters

Letters

Girls in Trouble

'Hooky Party' Puts the Spotlight on Schools' Treatment of Pregnant Teens

Film

Letters

Listings

Close-Up on Yorkville

The Year in Terror

Modest Proposals

The 'Urbanworld Film Festival'

Sports

Four-Room Co-op in 500-Unit 1969 High-Rise

The Jeffersons

Blood Simple

Money Talks

Well-heeled incumbents heavily favored in city congressional races

Rudy's Inner Child

The Mayor's Temper Costs ACORN Contract