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Holiday Lights to Remain Dark in Inwood and Washington Heights

Holiday lights used to decorate Dyckman Street each holiday as early as the 1960s. (Credit: Evelyn Strobel-Ruggiero)

UPPER MANHATTAN — Three commercial strips of Inwood and Washington Heights will not be lit up for the holidays for the second year in a row, after the non-profit charged with decorating the streets came up short on funds — again.

Nurys De Oleo, executive director for Northern Manhattan Coalition for Economic Development (NMCED), said that between state and city funding cuts and a lack of contributions from local businesses, there was no way for the group to come up with the money this year to light the commercial corridors of West 207th Street, Dyckman Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, from 184th to 193rd streets.

"It’s a difficult situation, they’ve cut our funding and it’s impossible," she said in Spanish. "In the past we’ve also asked business owners for donations and some will give $50, $100 or $25, whatever they can, but it’s not enough, it’s expensive to put up the lights."

Read more about the lights at DNAinfo.com. 

Students Plan to Break Guiness World Record at Dreidel-Palooza

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — A group of Yeshiva University students plan to answer a time-honored holiday question: Just how many dreidels can spin at the same time?

In honor of the Chanukah holiday, which begins next week, hundreds of students will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most people spinning dreidels, a game of chance where children spin a four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side for prizes.

Read more about the event at DNAinfo.com. 

Happy Thanksgiving Inwood and Washington Heights!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Native American saying

Inwood and Washington Heights Halloween Guide

UPPER MANHATTAN — Ghouls and goblins are preparing for a jam-packed weekend of Halloween celebrations for all ages planned throughout Inwood and Washington Heights.

FInd weekend festivities at DNAinfo.com. 

Northern Manhattan Celebrates Fort Tryon Park's 75th Anniversary

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Families and friends of Fort Tryon Park sang, danced and ate their way through a birthday bash in honor of the neighborhood's most celebrated park on Sunday afternoon.

The anniversary marked the day John D. Rockefeller Jr. gifted the city his former estate in northern Manhattan back in 1935.

Read more about the event and see the slideshow at DNAinfo.com.

Real Estate Agent Bestows Section of Upper Manhattan With 'Cloister Park' Name

"Cloister Park" is newest Upper Manhattan name bestowed on the neighborhood by a real estate agent.

By Carla Zanoni

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

UPPER MANHATTAN — A broker’s decision to rename a stretch of Manhattan that sits at the intersection of Washington Heights and Inwood has left some residents scratching their heads.

Read more about the newest Washington Heights, or is it Inwood, neighborhood at DNAinfo.com.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Inwood celebrates St. Patrick's Day today by welcoming The Liffy II Bar back into the fold. The pub holds yearly St. Patrick's Day celebrations replete with corned beef and hash feasts.

Liffy II had closed earlier this year, because of charges that they were selling alcohol to minors repeatedly over the course of a one-month police investigation. Keenan's, another Irish pub further south on Broadway in Inwood, also closed last November after police raided the bar finding cocaine in the basement and dealer's apartment. Police say the bar owners may have had knowledge of the dealing on site.

The closure of the two locations had reduced Inwood's Irish pub options in half, or 40 percent if you count the Irish Brigade Pub on Broadway, beneath Dyckman, along with Piper's Kilt and Patrick's Bar.  

Merry Christmas and Merry December 25th to All

 

Bangalore Christmas card from Jambor's Flickr feed

Wishing you all a day filled with love and peace in Inwood, Washington Heights & throughout the city and world. May today be a time for reflection, family and friends and good food. 

With much love and thanks,

Carla 

 

December Photo Challenge #24, It Begins

Church of the Good Shepherd, Inwood.