Caroline HopkinsKatie Tutrone takes yesterday’s weather “cirrusly”Fifty-nine degrees Fahrenheit is not a normal temperature for mid-February in New York. But 59 degrees Fahrenheit it was, so on the…Mar 6, 2019Mar 6, 2019
Caroline HopkinsNew York City’s night owls: a walk with Birding BobDeep in the dark woods of Inwood Hill Park, a tall man with rosy cheeks stops walking to free his hands from a pair of winter gloves and…Dec 3, 2018Dec 3, 2018
Caroline HopkinsTalking Tattoos in Manhattan’s Oldest HouseMichael McCabe opened his “History and Culture of Tattooing” lecture with a request for a show of hands.Nov 9, 20182Nov 9, 20182
Caroline HopkinsEast Harlem honors International Overdose Awareness Day with education, preventionNationwide, the National Institute of Drug Abuse reports over 115 overdose deaths each day — and with 2,822 drug-related hospitalizations…Oct 18, 2018Oct 18, 2018
Caroline Hopkins‘What local jobs?’ Nine years later, residents say East River Plaza has reneged on promiseWhen the 500,000-square-foot East River Plaza opened its doors on Nov. 12, 2009, its developers promised to bring an economic boost to…Oct 18, 2018Oct 18, 2018
Caroline HopkinsVolunteers celebrate World Habitat Day at the East River Compost YardJust south of the Manhattan entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, several tons of New York City’s food waste emit billows of steam inside…Oct 6, 2018Oct 6, 2018
Caroline HopkinsFor East Harlem nonprofit, Langston Hughes’ legacy is more than his houseOn a Friday evening in September, applause fills the parlor of the Langston Hughes House in East Harlem as the final poet of the evening’s…Oct 6, 2018Oct 6, 2018
Caroline HopkinsFor affordable disease prevention, nutrition workshops teach East Harlem locals to buy in-seasonOn a wet Tuesday morning in early September, East Harlem residents file into the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care on 124th Street. It’s…Sep 30, 2018Sep 30, 2018