Washington Heights News

Ten local nonprofits will be honored this evening at the 2009 Union Square Awards celebration to be held at Riverside Church in Manhattan.

Former state Sen. Efrain Gonzalez may be trying to withdraw his guilty plea to plundering $200G in state funding from local nonprofits.

Broadway ticket availability and capsule reviews of shows as of Nov. 30. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are available at the theaters' box offices for the shows listed.

A Manhattan woman says she got the scare of her life when a hospital snafu during a routine procedure exposed her to dirty equipment carrying the HIV virus.

Lilting melodies and likable characters lift the spirits of In the Heights . Lively performances onstage and in the pit orchestra bring out the sweetness of the well-cast national tour of last year's Tony winner for best musical.

Despite the economic recession, several new buildings in Northern Manhattan are well on their way to being completed, and a few projects are on the drawing board.

A makeshift altar at Jailina Salon Unisex in Washington Heights commemorates the death of Joselin Castro and her daughter, Monserrat.

"The music reflects a mix of all the different influences I grew up listening to in northern Manhattan," said Miranda, 29.

Joselin Castro, eight months pregnant when she died, was mourned at Jailina Salon Unisex.

David Edelstein at the W South Beach, his latest development project. Designed by Anna Busta's Studio B, the Living Room at W South Beach has velvet curtains in eggplant purple and armchairs covered in white pony or slate velvet.

Five Washington Heights residents have filed suit against their landlord for allegedly violating the Tenant Protection Act by intimidating, harassing and threatening them in order to force them out of their rent regulated apartments, according to the Indypendent.

Not many people can say they moved to the neighborhood because of actress Marcia Gay Harden.

It was clear that Sunday was shaping up to be a rare shot of Indian summer, the ideal day for wandering through a park or lazing around on stoops or eating outdoors.

Cleaner days : Far East Village, namely 10th Street and Avenue D, in a 1937 photograph by the always reliable Berenice Abbott [link: NYPL ] Some neighborhoods change slowly but consistently throughout the decades.

As officers approached the smashed up silver Cadillac on W. 188th that they had just chased through the streets and sidewalks all over Northern Manhattan on the evening of Wed., July 22, the driver, nicknamed Flaco, gunned the engine at an approaching plainclothes officer, who fired one fatal shot through the windshield, according to police.

Dr. Stuart Dawson testified that Joseph Odierno's torso had about 24 small stab wounds, but could not say whether the injuries occurred before or after he was shot in the head.

The Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical 'In The Heights' opens at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday, bringing a fresh, new type of musical.

Rumba or Marcarena, cha-cha or salsa - everybody likes some kind of Latin music.

In her gold shoes, Shakespeare on the Sound Artistic Director Joanna Settle had an air of ruby slippers' magic as she joined with board members, administrators, actors and supporters of the annual summer theatre to announce the upcoming season's play selection, "Othello." Starring in the lead role will be Ty Jones, who played Bottom in last year's ...

As Champagne celebrations go, the best one after the Yankees won the World Series might have been the one on the sidewalk of 191st Street in Washington Heights.