American Indians Cry Foul Play on Indian Road Playground Design

Posted on September 29, 2010 by chiarasottile

Inwood’s children will soon have a new place to play, but some community members worry about the lessons the renovated Indian Road Playground will teach when it reopens this fall. Members of Manhattan’s Native American community say they were left out of the planning process and that the resulting design is stereotypical and offensive.

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AUDIO: A Garden Grows in Inwood

Posted on September 26, 2010 by chiarasottile

Listen to Audio Version: Inwood Community Garden (*) In the small, neglected corner of Inwood’s Dyckman Marina, volunteers of the Inwood Gardener Initiative transformed a black stockade steel fence into a community vegetable and flower garden. Serendipitously-named Linda Gardener inaugurated the vertical garden when she mounted six sturdy, black panels and 48 planting pouches on [...]

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VIDEO: “12-9,” as told by George Fernandez

Posted on September 15, 2010 by chiarasottile

New York City subway driver George Fernandez has been driving trains for 26 years. From behind the wheel, he sees danger, stupidity and desperation of which the public is completely ignorant. Perhaps the most horrific example is the “12-9:” the MTA’s radio code for Man Under. Fernandez says he faces jumpers, people pretending to jump, and people who fall retrieving items from the tracks on a daily basis. He tries to numb these experiences at the end of the working day, because otherwise he says he couldn’t do his job.

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Oh, so that’s why people blame the media.

Posted on September 12, 2010 by chiarasottile

I spent the evening of Sept.11 on Greenwich Street, a block south of the former World Trade Center Site, where hundreds of firefighters from across the five boroughs held a remembrance ceremony and celebration. That’s right: celebration. In addition to Sept. 11 being a day for them to remember the 343 firefighters that died that day, it’s also a time to honor the living. That basically translates to Guinness, whiskey, and boisterous bagpipes.

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