Washington Heights News

It opened with a bang. There were colors, textures, and movement everywhere. Bishop Canevin's production of "In the Heights" was extraordinary.

The controversial plan to eliminate school zones in Washington Heights and Inwood , which was shelved last fall after parental outrage , will be back on the table at a special Community Education Council Meeting next week, DNAinfo New York has learned.

The doorbell of the apartment in a modest brick building in a quiet residential neighborhood in Washington Heights rings like Big Ben announcing the queen.

The city Department of Transportation has proposed new bike lanes on several streets in northern Manhattan - two years after community leaders asked the department to come up with designs for new paths.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly addressed the media today in response to the hate crime killing of Mark Carson and recent wave of assaults against the gay community that has seen two additional incidences in the past 24 hours.

The MTA has rebuilt the two mile long Rockaway Branch damaged by Hurricane Sandy and will be in service on May 30th.

About three dozen owners or managers of businesses along Route 211 came to a meeting with town officials Monday morning, the first in what town officials hope to make a series of meetings with the business community.

SpeakEasy Stage Company's "In the Heights" so convincingly envelops the audience in a corner of a not-so-long-ago Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City that it might take a minute to get your bearings when you leave Boston Center for the Arts and find yourself in the South End.

Armando Batista, 34, at the ceremony for Broadway's co-naming of Juan Rodriguez Way on Wednesday, May 16.

Uptown residents are giving Liam Neeson's newest movie two thumbs down after a beloved mural was painted over during filming earlier this month .

'In the Heights" refers to an exhilarated state of mind as well as a vibrant city neighborhood.

Police this weekend were asking for the public's help in finding a trio of suspects wanted in connection with a string of robberies and home invasions in far northern Manhattan.

Two high-ranking officers who testified this week in the seventh week of the federal trial over the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk program spoke with NY1 criminal justice Reporter Dean Meminger.

MCC Theater have announced plans for its annual UnCensored, an evening of original monologues, scenes, music, and ensemble pieces written and performed by the MCC Theater Youth Company, a free, after-school program of New York City high school students interested in exploring self-expression and developing their acting and dramatic writing skills.

Kolkata, May 8 : The American Center in Kolkata screened the 2005 documentary on a ballroom dance program in the New York public school system, 'Mad Hot Ballroom', on Tuesday.

In The Heights , with music and lyrics by Lin- Manuel Miranda and Book by Quara Alegria Hudes, is the first Broadway show to combine Latin and western culture.

The movie star will shoot scenes of "A Walk Among the Tombstones" on West 181st Street between Cabrini Boulevard and Pinehurst Avenue on Saturday and Sunday, State Sen.

Only in New York could a troupe of Jewish and Dominican kids team up with a Broadway legend on a musical production about a Latin dictator's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust.

Upper Manhattan is celebrating May 15 in honor of Juan Rodriguez, a sailor who came to New York from the island now known as the Dominican Republic in 1613.

Unlike a lot of artists, you won't find Felipe Galindo Gomez agonizing over a blank canvas in his Washington Heights studio, wondering what he will draw.