Washington Heights News

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.

Election inspectors at St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn Heights patiently wait for a customer this morning.

Voters Tuesday certified the election of John Liu, 42, as city controller, making him the first Asian-American to win a citywide office in the Big Apple.

An off-duty cop who shot a teen in the groin during a fight in Manhattan never identified himself as a cop as police have claimed, a lawyer for the victim charged Sunday.

An off-duty NYC cop shot a man during a physical dispute in Washington Heights Saturday.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York obtained an indictment on Monday charging Patrick Nayyar and Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland with attempting to provide material support to Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Two Bronx men were arraigned Thursday for stabbing a bouncer to death at a Washington Heights hangout.

Hispanic voters in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan are being urged NOT to choose either Mike Bloomberg or Bill Thompson in next week's mayoral election.

What happened when the power blew out one July Fourth weekend? That, in a way, is the story of In the Heights , which won the 2008 Tony Award for best musical.

Police mug shot of Darren Lynch. Opening arguments began Tuesday afternoon in the murder trial of a Queens man charged with killing two men over a drug deal gone bad, then chopping up their bodies and burying them in Coram in 2008.

New York City police are questioning three people in connection with the stabbing death of a bouncer outside a neighborhood hot spot.

Lights up on Kyle Beltran, Rogelio Douglas Jr., Natalie Toro, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, among others, in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights.

Share + Oct 26, 2009 12:47 am US/Eastern New York City firefighters could need some saving from the city budget, with reports that the Bloomberg administration is considering closing up to 25 fire houses to save millions of dollars.

The Tony Award-winning musical "In the Heights" plans to take on the world - one baby step at a time.