Washington Heights News

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.

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.