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FEBRUARY 05 - FEBRUARY 11, 2020 • VOL. 21 • No. 06 WASHINGTON HEIGHTS • INWOOD • HARLEM • EAST HARLEM NORTHERN MANHATTAN’S BILINGUAL NEWSPAPER EL PERIODICO BILINGUE DEL NORTE DE MANHATTAN NOW EVERY WEDNESDAY TODOS LOS MIERCOLES Rallying the Responsep9 Respuesta Photos: Gregg McQueen Gregg Photos: unificadora p9 Relief p8 Eats p 11 Literacy p3 Make the Switch to Reusable Bags! Save Money • Reduce Waste Starting March 1, 2020 Plastic Bag Ban Paper Bag Fee (New York State) (New York City) Single-use plastic Businesses will carryout bags begin collecting a are banned, with five-cent fee on limited exceptions, paper carryout bags. in New York State. This fee will not apply to any 5¢ customers using SNAP or WIC. To learn more and get a free reusable bag, visit nyc.gov/bags or call 311. NYCsanitation • NYCzerowaste 2 FEBRUARY 05, 2020 • MANHATTAN TIMES • www.manhattantimesnews.com 2020-01-CarryoutBagOutreachAd-10x11.25-BFP-FINAL.indd 1 1/22/2020 8:04:01 AM Right Size Reading NYPL unveils new Macombs Bridge Library By Gregg McQueen the previous branch “small but mighty” and praised the staff for making the most of the limited resources they had at the old location, t’s a size up for these stacks. which was used for 65 years. I “The community deserved better, and they The new Macomb’s Bridge library is deserved better for a long time,” Marx said. a big deal – literally – for Harlem residents. The new, 3,375 square-foot branch is Once the smallest branch in the New York nestled within the Harlem River Houses Public Library (NYPL) system at only 685 public housing complex and features an adult square feet, Macomb’s Bridge now has a reading room, community room, numerous new facility nearly five times the size. computer stations and a children’s section. It Located at 2633 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is also wheelchair accessible. Boulevard, the new branch was unveiled in a “Communities need modern libraries,” ribbon-cutting ceremony on January 30. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer Tony Marx, President of NYPL, called said. “Every community needs a library like this.” Branch Manager Lucile Francois said the vastly larger space would allow for improved community programming. “Now we’ll be able to do our story time for more children. We won’t have to push tables aside anymore,” Francois said. She recalled that previously, literacy workshops and computer classes at the branch had to be conducted in one-on-one sessions The new library branch was officially opened. instead of groups, rendering them less effective in reaching more residents. have the space before.” libraries, the better our society will be,” said “We’ll also offer yoga for adults and a On the library’s opening day, children from State Senator Brian Benjamin. “We won’t have to push tables fitness program for seniors,” said Francois. a local daycare center gathered for a story- Yvonne Lindesay, Tenant Association aside anymore,” said Branch “We’ll also invite middle-schoolers and high telling session. Leader of the neighboring Harlem River Manager Lucile Francois. schools to come in, where we really didn’t “The more time our children spend in See MACOMBS p14 FEBRUARY 05, 2020 • MANHATTAN TIMES • www.manhattantimesnews.com 3 Founding fathers on film Film version of Hamilton musical set for 2021 Hamilton will be coming to the big screen in 2021. that ‘Hamilton’ was hailed as an astonishing original Broadway company of ‘Hamilton’ to the rab your popcorn. work of art,” Disney chairman Bob Iger said in a largest audience possible.” G statement. “All who saw it with the original cast Hamilton won 11 Tony Awards and the Now everyone will get to be in the will never forget that singular experience. And Pulitzer Prize for drama. The original Broadway room where it happens. we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to share cast includes Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, The groundbreaking Broadway musical this same Broadway experience with millions of Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr, Christopher Hamilton will be coming to a movie theater people around the world.” Jackson as George Washington, Daveed Diggs near you. Published reports indicate that the rights to the as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, Disney has announced it is bringing a film film were sold to Disney for $75 million. Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton, Renee Elise version of the show, featuring the original “I fell in love with musical storytelling Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler and Jonathan Broadway cast, to North American cinemas in growing up with the legendary Howard Ashman- Groff as King George. October 2021. Alan Menken Disney collaborations: ‘The Little “We are thrilled for fans of the show, and new Stage performances were filmed at the Mermaid,’ ‘Beauty and The Beast,’ ‘Aladdin,’” audiences across the world, to experience what it Richard Rodgers Theatre shortly before the said Lin-Manuel Miranda in a statement. “I’m was like on stage — and in the audience — when departure of the original cast, and Thomas Kail so proud of what Tommy Kail has been able we shot this at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on served as director. to capture in this filmed version of ‘Hamilton’ Broadway in June of 2016,” said Kail, who also “Lin-Manuel Miranda created an — a live theatrical experience that feels just as directed both the Broadway show. “We wanted unforgettable theater experience and a true immediate in your local movie theater. We’re to give everyone the same seat, which is what Original cast member cultural phenomenon, and it was for good reason excited to partner with Disney to bring the this film can provide.” Renee Elise Goldsberry. La película fue filmada en el Teatro Richard Rodgers. Jan 27 – Feb 1 The brainchild of Carter G. Woodson, the directory of my life. The Malcolm X & Dr. Black History Month began as Black History Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational is Week in 1926. Black History Month has a a living, breathing testament to the vision, special resonance Uptown since our beloved depth and scope of a man whose intelligence, piece of NYC has played an outsized ro le in determination and drive made him a giant the making of much of that history. Walking among men. His outsized and larger than life the streets of Uptown you can still feel the presence can still be felt in the former Audubon legacy of Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Ballroom. When you enter this sacred space Billie Holiday, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., you can almost hear Malcolm telling it like Ossie Davies, Ralph Ellison and countless it is, speaking truth to power resolutely and others. Black History Month is not an abstract unapologetically, with the audience enraptured concept here. Simply step out of your doors responding back, “Make it plain Malcolm, make Los Padres en película and go searching for it. You won’t have to look it plain.” Malcolm X lives! far and you won’t be disappointed. By the way, familia, our site began Versión cinemato gráfica del musical One of the best places to go digging for broadcasting on a daily basis exactly ten that history is the indispensable Schomburg years ago. We are now the big 1-0. I can’t Hamilton fijada para 2021 Center for Research in Black Culture (515 believe that we have been around for a Malcolm X Blvd). The venerable institution decade. Thanks for the support and please ome sus palomitas de maíz. teatral inolvidable y un verdadero fenómeno houses a treasure trove of Black history continue to spread that Uptown Love. T cultural, y fue por una buena razón que and boasts a busy and acclaimed roster of Keep checking us out at Ahora todos estarán en la habitación Hamilton fue aclamada como una asombrosa events, panels and forums. Late last year www.uptowncollective.com. donde sucede (The room where it happens, obra de arte”, dijo el presidente de Disney, they hosted a conversation with Hip-Hop canción del musical Hamilton). Bob Iger, en un comunicado. “Todos los icon Rakim and Ralph McDaniels. Get this: Led Black El innovador musical de Broadway, que la vieron con el elenco original nunca you can read a chapter, by appointment Editor-in-Chief Hamilton, llegará a un cine cerca de usted. olvidarán esa experiencia singular. Y only, from the classic The Autobiography The Uptown Collective Disney ha anunciado que llevará una estamos encantados de tener la oportunidad of Malcolm X that was omitted from the versión cinematográfica del espectáculo, con de compartir esta misma experiencia de published version. The UC’s mission is to become “the” definitive, el elenco original de Broadway, a los cines Broadway con millones de personas en todo Another place that looms large in my transformative and community-based force impacting norteamericanos en octubre de 2021. el mundo”. consciousness is The Malcolm X & Dr. the arts, culture, business and New York City’s overall Las actuaciones en el escenario se filmaron Los informes publicados indican que los Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational perception of Upper Manhattan. Its objective is to en el Teatro Richard Rodgers poco antes de la derechos de la película fueron vendidos a Center (3940 Broadway). Malcolm X literally reset, reboot and positively redefine Uptown’s artistic, political, cultural and business spheres via the online partida del elenco original, y Thomas Kail se Disney por $75 millones de dólares. put the Black in Led Black. Simply stated, space as well the collective’s initiatives and functions. desempeñó como director. The Autobiography of Malcolm X changed “Lin-Manuel Miranda creó una experiencia See HAMILTON p19 4 FEBRUARY 05, 2020 • MANHATTAN TIMES • www.manhattantimesnews.com Speak up.