Washington Heights

We Asked the Unicorn: An Interview with Ed Askew

If you're the type who gets all doe eyed over every young snot who wears a kaftan and sings of freewheeling mysticism like it's some newfangled thing, you better wise up and pay attention to the man who has been the master of all such things in this city for over 40 years, Ed Askew. The LP he rele ... More >>

The Anti-Facebook: Photos Unveiled One Year Later in Washington Heights Art Project

Washington Heights photographer Mike Fitelson is taking Facebook status updates and instant photo sharing and turning them upside down. That is, he is taking the process of sharing thoughts and photos online and slowing it down and simplifying it dramatically -- and bringing the whole thing off li ... More >>

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Redistricting Controversy Continues As Advocates Push for Dominican Congressional District

Just days after a U.S. District court judge ruled to intervene in New York state's redistricting process, local political leaders in Upper Manhattan are calling for the legislature to redraw district lines to favor the local Dominican community's voting power. The 15th Congressional District, which ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2011 Comments: Raves and Rants

Making cases for the great and the grating

Got Buns? Maracucha Burger at Cachapas y Mas

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, there supposedly lived a dude named Noah. According to folklore, he was a real stand-up guy -- so morally upright, in fact, that the big man in the sky decided to let him live through a floodpocalypse. Thing is, Noah had to build a boat to survive the d ... More >>

NYC's Most Obscure Restaurants: Schnitzel Bar in Sunset Park, Brooklyn

​Way down below the Gowanus lurks Schnitzel Bar. We really only ever hear about a handful of restaurants out of the 50,000 that I estimate exist in the city. Even in Manhattan itself, there are vast swatches in Inwood, Washington Heights, Harlem, the Upper East Side, and around the fringes o ... More >>

Sex Assault Suspect Looked Like a 'Hipster,' Had Star Tattoos on Calves, Says NYPD

New information has been released by the NYPD regarding the suspect in a sexual assault that took place on June 12 in Washington Heights, where there has been a series of recent attacks. According to DNA Info, the 34th Precinct's Capt. Jose Navarro told residents the man "had multiple lip piercings, ... More >>

NYPD Crime Stats: Half The Year Over, Neighborhoods Seeing Spikes in Burglaries and Larcenies

​Well, the year is nearly half over, and it's time to do a bit of handicapping of the city's crime statistics. In general, some sections of the city are experiencing a spike in assaults, and a rash of economic crimes--burglaries and grand larcenies, mainly. Overall, citywide crime, according ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Manhattan's Grid Plan!

​Oh, Manhattan's grid plan! On this day 200 years ago, you were published by the city council as a means "to unite regularity and order with the public convenience and benefit and in particular to promote the health of the City." You have become an icon, your right angles and blocks form the b ... More >>

Anna Frazier, 14, Disappears in Washington Heights

Where is Anna Frazier?​Cops are asking the public to help hunt for Anna Frazier, 14, who was last seen at about 4:15 p.m. Thursday, March 10, leaving her apartment at 99 Hillside Avenue in Washington Heights. Anna is 5-3, 130 pounds. She was wearing black pants and a black shirt and carrying a bla ... More >>

Penguin Prison on Touring With Girl Talk: "I Would Like 15-Year-Olds to Like My Music Too"

Todd Owyoung for the Riverfront TimesPenguin Prison opening for Girl Talk at the Pageant Girl Talk shows are the sorts of underage blitzkriegs in which everyone gets hit with more ass than a toilet seat, so one would have to imagine that touring with Gregg Gillis and his neon busload would be, uh, ... More >>

At Home With Penguin Prison's Chris Glover: Steve Buscemi's HBO Mistress Lived on This Street

all photos by Paul QuitorianoPenguin Prison's Chris Glover in his Washington Heights living room Last season on Boardwalk Empire, Nucky Thompson's mistress shipped off to some vaguely defined shady lane, a cobblestone-and-clapboard stretch that apparently housed women of ill repute. That wasn't ano ... More >>

Community Board 3 October Agenda: Is the Mamajuana Café Taking Over the Old Tonic Space?

Coming to Norfolk Street?​Community Board 3's October SLA/DCA committee meeting agenda can now be found on the CB3 Web site. With a mere 18 items on the agenda, the Oct. 18 meeting doesn't bear the outward hallmarks of some of CB3's more epic endurance tests. Still, there are a few potentially ... More >>

They All Look Alike: Daily News, Minority Politicians Division

​ "Throw the Bums Out!" is the lead battle cry of the front page of the Daily News' Web site this morning, and it has pix of those rascals we should all be voting against today -- a quartet of black and Hispanic politicians: state senators Pedro Espada, Kevin Parker, Assemblyman Adriano Espail ... More >>

Skunk: It's the New Cockroach, Bedbug, Coyote, Goose, Etc.

This week's urban pest dream team​Lately, it's as though an arc of unwanted animals docked on the Hudson and unloaded onto Manhattan. There were coyotes earlier in the year, bedbugs everywhere all summer long, raccoons a few days ago, the unfortunate geese episodes, and now this: skunks.

Morning Links: BP Moves to Phase 2 of Mud-Pouring; No Cake for Birthday Obama; Naomi Campbell Talks Blood Diamonds

​• BP has gotten the okay to begin the next phase of the "static kill" (a/k/a, pouring cement into the well part two), which is something that we never would have thought we'd be excited about 100-some days ago. Things change. Pumping operations are expected to start today. [BP] • Despite ... More >>

NYPD Tapes 3: A Detective Comes Forward About Downgraded Sexual Assaults

When even attempted rapes are being downgraded to misdemeanors, is the public safe?

Morning Links: International Criticism Mounts Against Israel, Hurricane Season Begins, Quit Facebook Actually "Update Your Status" Day

AP​• Israel is holding more than 600 activists from the Gaza convoy, and international criticism of the country is mounting, with the UN condemning the acts that on Monday killed 9 civilians -- many of them Turks, a country that had once been a friend of Israel -- aboard the flotilla that ha ... More >>

Live: Vampire Weekend Stage A Physically And Emotionally Grueling Blowout At United Palace Theatre

Vampire Weekend/Titus Andronicus United Palace Theatre Sunday, January 17 I personally do not see anyone wearing the $30 bright-yellow "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" scarf available at Vampire Weekend's merch table -- and believe me, I'm looking -- but later it's rumored they're completely sold out, so ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Fried Chickens

​This box from Arkansas Fried Chicken in the Bronx says it all. Tomorrow morning we'll be posting Our 10 Best Fried Chickens joints, and I don't want to tell you how many pieces of fried chicken we gnawed in preparation of this ranking.

Halloween Casualty Report: Shot by Cop in Groin, Run Down by Bus

Waiting in line at New York Costumes, Broadway and 11th, Friday night. Good morning. Did you have a nice Halloween weekend? On Mischief Night, a bunch of teenagers in Washington Heights were jumping out of a cardboard box on West 170th street to frighten passers-by. One of the passersby, unfortu ... More >>

Author Julie Klam Picks New York's Best Bookstore and Best Reading Spot

This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow arbitrary awards like Best Public-Access Show and Best Alt-Museum. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. ​ Julie Klam is the author of Please Excuse My Daughter, a ... More >>

The Many Scams of Angel-Eyes Martinez

And he seemed like such a sweet lad. Miguel Martinez, 39, sat in the front row of the City Council these last few years saying little and bearing the look of the angelic. Alas, it wasn't so. As he admitted today, what was really running through Martinez's mind was not the pressing problems of h ... More >>

Wednesday's Headlines: Madoff swindle as much as $65 billion; faces 150 years in prison

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]Your Wednesday New York headlines...Madoff theft total up to $65 billion; faces up to 150 years in prison when he pleads guilty tomorrow....and his wife is now target of probe for her role.Paterson may compromise on Rockefeller drug law revision; throwing ... More >>

Son of Son of Sam: amNY Considers Possible 70s New York Repeat

Ed Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight are the Usual Suspects in Pride and Glory

Spilling the beans, with 120 minutes to go

Morning Papers: Queens to the Bronx, "Baaa" to "Booo"

Back Page Bingo: "GOOD RIDDANCE" to Manny Ramirez

Musical Theater's Spring Thaw

Curious productions from unexpected corners revive a once-great form

World Enough and Time

Far-flung, close-up, and absolutely doable fun for all

Musicals in Transit

In the Heights or Adrift in Macao, new musicals are fun—but not too much else

Your Turn: Where the Yankees Spend Big

The Gang That Couldn't Wear Its Hair Straight

The Jheri Curls of Washington Heights, and how they made everybody else's hair curl

Letters

Coalition of the Unwilling

Counter-recruiters arm potential GI's with facts about the war in Iraq

The Wealth of Districts

Flaming mojitos and hot ladies await in Washington Heights

Double-Digit Dance Festival Takes Eight Miles of Manhattan

Close-Up on Hudson Heights

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Under the Stars

Interstate Raid

Megabank Moves In on SRO Tenants; Residents Protest at Ebbets Field

Studio in 1940s Co-Op Building

Limited-Equity Co-op in Eight-Unit 1872 Building

Two Bedroom Apartment in Pre-War Building

Shape Shifter

How a Butt-Boosting Silicone Injector Got Busted