Over the years, longtime Washington Heights resident and grassroots historian Barry S. amassed hundreds of vintage photos of his neighborhood and Inwood— roughly the area from 157th Street to 218th ...

Sylvan Terrace in Washington Heights. Welcome back to our new Untapped Cities series on NYC’s Micro Neighborhoods, where we delve into long standing ethnic enclaves. The neighborhood is among the most ...

Growing up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, Emmanuel Abreu saw people who looked like him walking down the street, going to the bodegas on his block and speaking Spanish at ...

With camera work that swoops from rooftops to street corners, the film “In the Heights” brings to life the dynamism of northern Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Directed by Jon M. Chu, “In ...

In the Heights, which first opened on Broadway in 2008, is composer and star Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s love letter to the New York City neighborhood where he grew up. It makes sense, then, that the ...

Based on the Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the story follows characters in the largely Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City. (Video: Warner Bros. Pictures) To quote ...

“ONCE UPON a time, in a faraway land called Nueva York, en un barrio called Washington Heights...” “In the Heights”, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning musical, recently adapted into a film, is a love ...

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) — Multiple people were injured in a five-alarm fire in Manhattan Saturday night, according to the FDNY. The fire broke out around 8:46 p.m. on Fort Washington ...

With camera work that swoops from rooftops to street corners, the film “In the Heights” brings to life the dynamism of northern Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Directed by Jon M. Chu, “In ...