If you didn’t already know, I recently launched a Wahi/Inwood Brunch & Supper Club which will meet once a month. It will bring together the young professionals of our area and help foster relationships between young/old and east/west of our neighborhoods.
The idea was inspired by Elaine Walker, who had similar success with a club [...]

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I was 8 years old when this occurred. Didn’t understand what was going on, but I knew it wasn’t the norm.
I know I can be extra critical of my own (Dominicans) on this blog, but I can’t say there was any day I ever read about in my people’s history in the United States [...]

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It was only a few months ago, when I was in the barber shop I regularly attend and walked into a conversation where a middle aged man and a few younger ones said they had no problem hitting a woman.
‘Si me encojona, le voy das si estoy en mala,’ said a few of them [...]

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Inwood Mural Project – Watch more Videos at Vodpod.
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You guessed it: Washington Heights/Inwood.
Cars blaring at 3 A.M; clubs letting out; motorcycles and car races; salsa, merengue and bachata boom boxes; influx of restaurants on every street.
New York’s Five Noisiest Neighborhoods, by Community Board (for the 08-09 fiscal year.)
1) Washington Heights & Inwood (CB12): 10,908 complaints
2) Chinatown/Lower East Side (CB3): 7,052 complaints
3) Upper West [...]

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the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.
Yes, we produced Kareem-Abdul-Jabbar. One of the greatest basketball players of all-time and one of the top 5 centers in league history.
He went to school at Saint Jude (204th street) and lived in the famed, Dyckman Projects (two blocks away from me), in Building 7 which is home to the Dyckman [...]

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So two weeks ago, me and your favorite photographer, Jameel Morrison hit the streets and took over 80 flicks from his camera at different locations in “my hood,” also known as Dyckman.
I was a little late to the shoot because I was at “Los Muchachos” barbershop on Nagle and Sickles. Shouts to Rambo and my [...]

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Barack Obama Democratic Club of Upper Manhattan
Latinos 4 Change
Last night, I got an email from an organization that I knew existed in Harlem, but didn’t know existed in my neck of the woods. You know – Washington Heights/Inwood also known as “anywhere past 155th street east of Edgecombe.”
I got an email from one of the [...]

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I didn’t even know the truck was back until I went to Inwoodite.Com and Tacosporvida (credit with the photo and are both great blogs) and saw them have a post about it.
The truck disappeared for a while, but I’m glad its back. Does anyone else remember the guy who stood on Post and Dyckman [...]

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Its a question that I’ve even been confused of growing up here all my life. I’ve lived on Academy, Post, Arden and Hillside. I’m more Dyckman than a lot of people can claim to ever be.
The other day while walking up 145th and Broadway, I saw a flower shop called “Washington Heights Florist” and I [...]

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