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Jamboree P10 Vote P11 March P3 OCTOBER 29 - nOvEmBER 4, 2014 • Vol. 15 • no. 44 washington hEighTs • inwood • haRlEm • EAST HARlEm NORTHERN MANHATTAN’S BILINGUAL NEWSPAPER EL PERIODICO BILINGUE DEL NORTE DE MANHATTAN NOW EVERY WEDNESDAY TODOS LOS MIERCOLES Ebola Uptown p4 Mónica Barnkow Dr. Craig Spencer by p4 Photo by Mónica Barnkow Llega Ebola al Alto Photo March p3 Jamboree p10 Vote p 11 Come to the Inwood Center for an afternoon of Halloween fun, where every child is a hero! A Halloween Hero portrait for your child is free! ¡Venga al Inwood Center para una tarde de diversión de ‘Halloween,’ Christopher Auger-Domínguez PHOTOS: donde cada niño es un héroe! Se le regalará un “Retrato de Héroe” gratis! Trick or Treating | Halloween Heroes Pop-Up Studio | Gross-Out Center HALLOWEEN HERO-FEST FIESTA DE HEROES at the Inwood Center 5030 Broadway, corner of West 214th Street, New York, NY 10034 212-569-5800 Friday | Viernes, Oct. 31st | 3 – 5 pm FREE | GRATIS The FREE PRESS the community’s bilingual newspaper BRONX el periódico bilingüe de la comunidad 2 OCTOBER 29, 2014 • ManhaTTan TiMEs • www.manhattantimesnews.com Taking it to the streets The rally was held uptown. Story by Erik Cuello Resources and Photos by QPHOTONYC support were offered. he renters were on a rant. T Hundreds of tenants, activists, and elected officials took to the streets this past Sat., Oct. 25th at noon to call for greater protections for affordable housing. The march, which spanned from 135th Street to Dyckman, was intended to call attention to the state’s rent regulation laws, including the Emergency Tenant Protection Act, which are set to expire in the coming year. Saturday’s march was organized in part by State Senator Adriano Espaillat, the Ranking Member of the Senate Housing, Construction and Community Development Committee. He was joined by fellow elected officials, including City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Assemblymember Herman “Denny” Farrell, Assemblymember-elect Guillermo Linares, and Councilmember Ydanis Rodríguez, and members of the non-profit organizations People Against Landlord Abuse and Tenant group Community Service Society of New The march ended by late afternoon at I.S. added Councilmember Rodríguez. “The Exploitation (P.A.’L.A.N.T.E. Harlem) and York found that there are over 85,000 rent- 52 Middle School on Academy Street, where state legislature must empower Northern Make the Road New York. regulated apartments in Northern Manhattan, an information fair was held for tenants. Manhattan to fight rent deregulation so “Upper Manhattan has the largest including over 80% of all apartments in “We are fighting to ensure that these laws that we can make sure the identities of our concentration of regulated apartments in New Washington Heights and Inwood. are renewed but in ways that strengthen the communities stay intact.” York City,” said Sen. Espaillat. “The fight to “As tenants in these areas find their rents fast rights of tenants and strengthen our city’s renew and strengthen the rent laws next year outstripping their incomes, the affordability neighborhoods,” said Sen. Espaillat. For more information, including will determine the future of our community.” protections of rent regulation become even “Today’s march communicates to Albany CSS’s full report, please visit www. A report released last week by advocacy more important,” read the report. that they need to pass stronger rent laws,” manhattantimesnews.com. Llevándolo En la marcha. a las calles Historia por Erik Cuello Fotos por QPHOTONYC Los arrendatarios vociferaban. Cientos de inquilinos, activistas y funcionarios electos se lanzaron a las calles el pasado sábado 25 de octubre al mediodía para pedir mayores protecciones para la vivienda asequible. La marcha, que se extendió desde la calle 135 hasta Dyckman, tenía la intención de llamar la atención sobre las leyes de regulación de renta del estado, incluyendo la ley de protección en emergencia de los arrendatarios, que está a punto de expirar el próximo año. Harlem por sus siglas en inglés) y Make the Heights e Inwood. senador Espaillat. La marcha del sábado fue organizada en Road Nueva York. “A medida que los inquilinos de estas “La marcha de hoy le comunica a Albany parte por el senador estatal Adriano Espaillat, “El Alto Manhattan cuenta con la mayor áreas encuentran que sus rentas sobrepasan que es necesario aprobar leyes de alquiler el miembro de mayor rango del comité de concentración de apartamentos regulados en la rápidamente sus ingresos, las protecciones de más fuertes”, añadió el concejal Rodríguez. vivienda, construcción y desarrollo de la ciudad de Nueva York”, dijo el senador Espaillat. asequibilidad de regulación de alquileres se “La legislatura estatal debe empoderar al comunidad del senado. Estuvo acompañado “La lucha para renovar y fortalecer las leyes de hacen aún más importantes”, decía el informe. norte de Manhattan para luchar contra la por compañeros funcionarios electos, entre alquiler el próximo año va a determinar el futuro La marcha terminó al final de la tarde en desregulación del alquiler para que podamos ellos el contralor de la ciudad, Scott Stringer; de nuestra comunidad”. la I.S. 52 Middle School en la calle Academy, asegurarnos de que la identidad de nuestras el asambleísta Herman “Denny” Farrell; el Un informe publicado la semana pasada donde se celebró una feria de información para comunidades permanezca intacta”. asambleísta electo Guillermo Linares, y por el grupo de defensa Community Service los arrendatarios. el concejal Ydanis Rodríguez, además de Society de Nueva York, encontró que hay más “Estamos luchando para asegurar que Para más información, miembros de las organizaciones no lucrativas de 85,000 apartamentos de renta regulada estas leyes se renueven pero en formas que incluyendo el reporte complete Personas Contra el Abuso de Propietarios y en el norte de Manhattan, incluyendo más del fortalezcan los derechos de los inquilinos y de CSS, por favor visite www. Explotación de Arrendatarios (P.A.’L.A.N.T.E. 80% de todos los apartamentos en Washington refuercen los barrios de nuestra ciudad”, dijo el manhattantimesnews.com. OCTOBER 29, 2014 • ManhaTTan TiMEs • www.manhattantimesnews.com 3 The building in which Ebola patient Dr. Craig Ebola hits Spencer and fiancée Morgan Dixon live. home Story and photos by Mónica Barnkow s New York’s first confirmed AEbola patient waged battle against the disease in Bellevue Hospital downtown, his uptown neighbors struggled to come to grips with their proximity to the worldwide phenomenon. Since the news broke of Dr. Spencer’s diagnosis, the blocks surrounding 546 West 147th Street on which he resided with fiancée Morgan Dixon have been crammed with members of local and international media outlets. “It’s too close to home,” Moreover, the process of removing said Wendell Davis. potentially hazardous material from their fifth floor apartment meant workers and vehicles “It’s too close to home,” he said. “I don’t “They said there was a gas escape main name, as she pushed her cart full of tamales. from city health agencies, the New York want to be part of it.” leak when they closed the street,” he said. Others had been keeping track of the news. Police Department (NYPD), and the clean- Rolando Tapia was equally concerned. “They wouldn’t let us come anywhere near “I’ve lived here for 50 years,” said Genova up crew from Bio-Recovery Corporation also “Ebola can spread like HIV,” he said. Tapia our building.” Castro, who had been reading and watching took up residence in the neighborhood. said he had seen Dr. Spencer around the Armstrong sounded an apocalyptic note. the news. “And I have never seen anything Some found it too unsettling to stick neighborhood, but that they had not spoken. “They say we are prepared for this,” he like this.” around. “This is serious.” said. “But I don’t believe it at all.” Castro voiced sympathy for the doctor, and Wendell Dennis lives across the street from Michael Armstrong was critical of the For others, it was business as usual. said she hoped he would recover soon. Dr. Spencer’s building. He said he would be manner in which the NYPD interacted with “I don’t know what is going on,” said street “He got Ebola while trying to help,” she moving out of the neighborhood in coming days. residents. vendor Juana, who declined to give her last said. “He has a good heart.” in sERiOus BuT sTaBlE COndiTiOn El ébola llega al Alto Dr. Craig Spencer, the Hamilton patients in Guinea, and returned to New Heights resident who became the first York City on Fri., Oct. 17th. Historia y fotos por Mónica Barnkow miembros de medios de comunicación locales e New Yorker to be diagnosed with the He has been treated at Bellevue since internacionales. Ebola virus, remains in the isolation Thurs., Oct. 23rd, when he reported ientras que el primer paciente Por otra parte, el proceso de eliminación ward at Bellevue Hospital in serious but having nausea and a fever of 100.3 de material potencialmente peligroso de su confirmado contagiado con ébola stable condition. degrees. M apartamento del quinto piso significó que Spencer received a plasma transfusion Mayor Bill de Blasio visited with de Nueva York libra la batalla contra la trabajadores y vehículos de las agencias de from Ebola survivor Nancy Writebol, Spencer in the hospital and said the enfermedad en el Hospital Bellevue en el salud de la ciudad, el Departamento de Policía de who was successfully treated for the patient was “looking better.” centro de la ciudad, sus vecinos del norte Nueva York (NYPD) y el equipo de limpieza de la virus in August. Spencer shares the uptown apartment del condado luchan para enfrentar su Corporación Bio-Recovery, también se instalaran Health officials said that the with his fiancée Mary Dixon, who was en el barrio.
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