Washington Heights News

Jun 29, 2009 11:30 pm US/Eastern Reporting Kirstin Cole NEW YORK Imagine having someone do your grocery shopping because you helped someone else with some computer training.

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence, putting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation.

IN 2001, the Legislature gave Mike Bloomberg, then an untested new mayor, power to run the public schools.

A cane-cutter's son from Aguada, Puerto Rico, Antonio Perez barely made it out of high school in Washington Heights in 1964.

Cindy Gonsalves, 43, of Far Rockaway, N.Y., center left, has a dance-off with Miriam Akhavan-Tafti, 22, right, of Washington Heights, N.Y., as a crowd gathers to sing and dance to the music of Michael Jackson in the wake of his death at the Apollo Theater in the Harlem neighborhood of New ork, Friday.

A worker has suffered burns over most of his body from a small blast and fire at a medical school plant in upper Manhattan.

Even when patients recover most functional ability in the first months after a blood-clot related stroke, they gradually become more dependent over the next five years - especially those with Medicaid or no private insurance - according to a large study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association .

Hundreds of my neighbors in Crown Heights , Brooklyn , will gather in righteous rage at St.

Justina Machado will take over the role of salon owner Daniela in Broadway's Tony Award-winning Best Musical In the Heights for eight weeks starting June 29 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

Motorists were full of fuel fury at some city gas stations yesterday -- as prices jumped over $3 for the first official weekend of summer.

Ed Koch is a bit under the weather these days: The former mayor is resting -- if he can ever be said to rest -- at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, awaiting heart surgery to replace an aortic valve.

A supervisor at the New York state Medicaid Inspector General's Office was busted yesterday for allegedly offering to make a Bronx pharmacy's debt to the agency disappear in exchange for cash.

DOT tonight will present its recommendations for improvements to Manhattan's 181st Street.

A man arrested six months ago for allegedly abducting a 14-year-old girl is under arrest again.

A serial predator - busted just six months ago for abducting a 14-year-old girl - was already back on the street Monday stalking a 12-year-old girl, cops said.

The Washington Heights Fire District covers about 3 square miles just north of Middletown.

Only 200 of the city's 1,000 produce carts are on the streets, but reaction is already heated.

A pediatrician has pleaded guilty to a charge of having sex with an underage, male patient in his Upper West Side Manhattan office, PIX News has learned.

PHOTOS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> No $200 election jobs - ads a cruel fake! By CARLY BALDWIN More than 150 people showed up yesterday to work for Peter Cammarano's campaign, but there was a problem - Cammarano said he never advertised for the work.

WNYC, Straight Women in Support of Homos and uptown gays are among the lesser-know groups who have already shown their Pride this month.