get out your most comfortable walking shoes and join the hundreds of people that will be at Hike The Heights 6 this Saturday. there will be a hiking group gathering at RING Garden at 10am that will hike it out to Highbridge Park.
See below & website for details.
Inwood Hoops will be there and we need a few volunteers to help us carry hoops down, hoop it out with the locals, then get back home to Inwood. Consider it community service!
Hike The Heights is a family event. ALL AGES WELCOMED!
hurray! there’s a new group here in our tiny little neighborhood called Inwood Networking Parents. it’s a closed group on FB, so there’s no guarantee that we will be accepted and im now a member!. regardless, here is the intro letter i wrote to the moderator on InwoodKids, and i wanted to extend the offer to all my Uptown readers.
Hello! I am now a stay-at-home mommy blogger of twins and a teenage boy. My Manhattan’s Peak blog focuses on everything fabulous and fun in Inwood, as well as the occasional post about our personal parenting trials & tribulations. If anyone is looking for free local promotion or marketing (it’s what I call “Linky Love” on my blog) I would gladly put a post up on your behalf. I get a couple of hundred hits a day, mostly from my local readership base which includes Inwood, the Heights, Harlem and Marble Hill. The tone of my blog is very, very laid back and conversational. This is a place where my friends meet, and most of my friends in both “real life” and “online” live uptown. My husband has been nudging me lately about making some money via a “blogging from home” situation, so FYI I might put some advertising up on my sidebar in the near future.
My plan is to request to join the facebook Inwood Networking Parents group today, and will request your permission before posting any referrals on Manhattan’s Peak blog. Also note that my blog URLs are also automatically imported into my twitter feed and facebook account, so anything posted will be far reaching within my extended network.
Word of mouth via local blog posts spread like wildfire up here, and I’d love to help any Uptownies out if I can.
Please email me offline if you are interested in getting your business posted. manhattanspeak at gmail dot com
Thanks,
Zaida
mom to Ryan – 15, Gabriel & Stella – 3 months
blog | twitter
in this economy, we can all use a little free help these days. expect to see me shilling my own baby goods up for sale, and yes, it’s true – im considering putting ads up on the blog. i know! im selling out! there goes my gangsta lean, right? but we have 3 kids and 2 dogs to feed, so i might as well put this blog to good use in some way, shape or form. it’s kind of unfair for my husband to handle the entire financial load all by himself.
and if i can help a neighbor out in doing so, then why the hell not?
update: Susan asked a great question – you DO NOT need to be a parent to have a post put up on my blog, just a local business owner or self employed. you must request an invite to the FB group i linked which i am not at all associated with, unless im approved and then i will be a member. also, i will gladly put up any IRL friends info even if you dont live uptown. friends take care of each other!
check out more linky love on my sidebar.
can you believe summer is half over already? we still have so much we want to do, dont let time run out!
worth noting: Sunset Yoga, Tai Chi Lessons, Dracula, Joan of Arc, and take the kids Early Morning Fishing…
the banner below says “drink responsibly” so is that like condoning the consumption of alcohol in the park on the sly? because we are notorious for bringing a great bottle of wine to these wonderful outdoor performances.
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remember when we put you on to kayaking in the ‘hood last summer? well, it’s that time of year again! the Inwood Canoe Club website has had a nice little makeover, now with specific directions via google maps - just in case you had a hard time finding our little off-the-beaten-path neighborhood gem.
shhh – don’t tell the downtownies. let’s keep this our local [little] secret.
kayaking at the Inwood Canoe Club is free on Sundays, 10am – noon.
winter is over so it’s time to get off your ass, get out of the apartment, take a walk to the park and do something. lot’s of these events are FREE. and you know how much i love free shit.
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Northern Manhattan Parks Programs & Events
June 1 through June 7, 2009 To read the full program descriptions, click on the program title. Please note the CORRECTION for the July 11th, Nature Adventures for Kids program at the bottom of this message. Monday, June 1, 2009 Free Sunset Qi Gong Classes Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Fitness Walking Programs in Fort Tryon Park Sidney Horenstein’s Geology & History of Fort Tryon Park Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Free Tai Chi Lessons Inwood Astronomy Programs Thursday, June 4, 2009 Fitness Walking Programs in Fort Tryon Park 3rd Annual Toast to Fort Tryon Park Saturday, June 6, 2009 Mike Feller’s Inwood Hill Park Nature Walks Fitness Walking Programs in Fort Tryon Park National Trails Day Nature Adventures for Kids: Wiggly Worms, Lovely Ladybugs, & What Dinosaurs Ate Native American Ethnobotany with the Urban Park Rangers Inwood Astronomy Programs Sunday, June 7, 2009 Garden Walking Tours in Fort Tryon Park Correction: The July Nature Adventures for Kids program was incorrectly listed in last week’s program advisory. The correct date is Saturday, July 11 at 10 a.m. |
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i love caroling. maybe it was due to those few years spent in my youth living in the suburbs of maryland, where every day felt like one of those afterschool specials on tv during the 80′s. see, i grew up a wearing-all-black nyc kid hanging out on the corner on 17th st before it was named “chesea” and became chic. in 8th grade i was transplanted against my will into a storybook filled with yellow school buses, homecoming games, and bouncy blonde cheerleaders. nobody ever wore black. i had no idea there was this whole.other.life out there. perhaps that’s why i love inwood so much – it feels so small town, so community, so familiar, in that everyone knows everyone’s name kinda a way.
daniel came home yesterday and said, People I dont know stop me in the street and congratulate me on the twins!
see this is what im talking about. i heart our hood.
so, in search of local holiday music, i came across the RING Garden event calendar. and guess what? they are doing it up this weekend with tree trimming, a holiday party and a SINGALONG!!
Next Major Events:
Tree Decorating: Sat. Dec 13, Noon to 2pm
Holiday Party and Singalong: Sun. Dec 14, 4:30 to 5:30 pm
ive never attended, so i can only go by what’s posted on the website. if anyone has details, please share in the comments. The RING garden is located here (google map.) get out and enjoy, it’s free!
check it out:
Mayumi Ishino
KASA-casa /ka: sa’ ka: sa’/ verb. [from Japanese & Spanish] coexist,
intersect, etc.November 14 (Friday), 7:20 pm
Doors open at 7pm. No late seating after 7:30pm
Free Admission – Open to Public
IS143: 515 West 182 St, NY, NY 10033 (between Audubon Ave &
Amsterdam Ave)
Direction: take 2 or 3 (express) train to “96St”, change to 1
(local) train to “181 St”KASA-casa brings together art installation, music and performance
art from downtown NYC art scene to Washington Heights. In an at-once
accessible and poignant crosshatching of themes, the Japanese artist
draws on her experience in Asian and Latino societies. Assumptions
about race and identity are blurred while preconceptions of the
boundaries and definitions of the performance space are challenged.
Composer David Smooke performs live music improvisations. Dahlia
Fischbein sets a subliminal tone with her video art. Also featuring:
Kim Meijer (performance), Karl Nussbaum (video art), Max Lust
(animation), Khan and Meagan (dance), and others tba.KASA-Casa is made possible in part with public funds from the MCAF,
supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and
administered by the Lower Mahattan Cultural Council.
Acknowledgement: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Field,
Alianza Dominicana, Inc., and IS 143 for providing time and space to
create this work.
Head on down to the soccer field a little after dark and remember what it’s like to be a kid. Also, Jason from Inwood Astronomy Project will be down on the field with his telescope if you wanted to take a peek at the stars.
Tomorrow is the Inwoof Howl-O-Ween doggie parade at Homer’s Run beginning at noon.
Enjoy your weekend!
in these tough economic times, surely things you are ready to toss will go on craigslist instead of straight to the curb. every single penny counts. but what about those tchotchke’s that you think arent worth the time and effort enough to list?
there are so many families in our area looking to save a few bucks (hell, i know WE are!) that could use the items you no longer need or maybe you have stuff just taking up too much space in your closet and you need room for your new winter wardobe. personally, with our combining two households this weekend, many of our things will get freecycled for sure. we have lots of odds and ends from our do-it-yourself wedding that i just refuse to toss. who knows if there is someone out there looking for paper glue and ribbons and pastel sharpies? there might be a single mom out there wanting to create a fun project with her daughter, doesnt have the extra money right now, and i just made her life a little easier financially.
there are lot of little ways we can give back (to the community, to the city, to the universe), and i think this one is a no-brainer. so before you pull out the trash bag, please consider freecycling. it takes just two minutes to create a yahoo account, remember to add “inwood” and “10034″ in your OFFERS so the locals can search you out, and you are good to go!!
