To quote “In the Heights” itself, the streets are made of music in the first genuinely cheerful, splashy, exuberantly life-affirming movie of the summer. King Kong might have stomped his way ...

NYPD: Washington Heights Suspect Stole $9,000 From Victim's Car Before Opening Fire When Man Tried To Take Gun. ... Winds fuel Bronx apartment fire, more than 200 left out in cold ...

New York – When Margarita Santana first arrived in New York, she made coffee filters in a New Jersey factory. She worked with other Dominicans who longed for traditional home cooked meals ...

In particular, Washington Heights was the landing area for German Jewish refugees from Hitler (lovingly, or not so lovingly, called yekkes) — so much so that it was called “Frankfurt-on-the ...

A Columbia Heights restaurant's kitchen was destroyed after a fire broke out overnight in Northwest, according to the DC Fire ...

Just two of the best teams in the area feeling each other out and beating each other up. In the end, The Heights, playing in front of a boisterous home crowd in Potomac, came away with a 3-2 win.

Washington Heights has been home to middle- and working-class Dominicans since the 1960s. In the 1980s, the neighborhood, like many others in the city, was flooded with cocaine and crack, making ...

BEST OF Arts in Review. ... One way to find out is by watching “In the Heights,” a screen version of the 2008 Broadway musical set in a Latino, mostly Dominican community in Washington Heights ...