Jay Shells Poop Poster Installation On Video

Yesterday you saw two photos of a new Jay Shells poster installed on 173rd Street at Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights, reminding dog owners to pick up after their dog. You might've even read about it in the NY Daily News. Now, watch video of that installation below.

Artist Jay Shells Visits Washington Heights: Dogs Owners On Notice

Artist Jay Shells, maybe better known as the man behind the 'subway etiquette' project, has undertaken a new campaign targeting dog poop, installing large, colorful, hand-painted posters street side, reminding people to "clean up after your dog!"

Last night, Shells went up to 173rd Street, on the corner of Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights, to shape up dog owners in the area. He explained his decision to visit Wahi at the suggestion of Gothamist commenters, who requested their own display after Gothamist featured the original dog poop poster installed on 14th Street. Posters now reside on 14th Street, 173rd Street and 1st Avenue between 4th and 5th streets.

In addition to an admonition to clean up after your dog, plastic baggies (bio-degradable!) are available from an attached roll to help make the poo-poo pickup more convenient.

New York City's Sh*t and Piss War rages on. Whose side are you on?

Shells told NYC The Blog his next stop will be Bed-Stuy. See last nights finished product below.

Welcome To Northattan, Where Politicians Are Defeated With Santeria

Almonte is an assistant gardener in the park, responsible for planting, pruning and cleaning up the playgrounds. Park cleanup is not the most pleasant job – especially on the many mornings when Almonte has to pick up big black garbage bags stuffed with animal corpses – the remains of Santeria religious sacrifices.

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Almonte says she found other sacrifices this past summer around the time that local Councilman Miguel Martinez was forced to resign under corruption charges. Almonte believes the sacrifices were aimed at saving his political career. As news spread of embezzlement charges against Martinez, Almonte retrieved five bags in the park, each with a photo of Martinez inside.

Saving his career? They torpedoed it! Santeria for all corrupt pols!

The report and slideshow above comes from Northattan, a new website reported and edited by student journalists at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, covering northern Manhattan. It is an ambitious, wide reaching website, featuring original reporting, video, and audio. Here are some other reports you probably missed:

++Amikka Smith on Bennie "Tex" Miller, a "true american cowboy." Smith was the first African American to win the world championship for bull riding, and passed away last week at aged 96.

++Bruce Pianski's City Solve, a graffiti-removal company, removes graffiti from St Nicholas Avenue between 170th and 185th street in Washington Height. Before and after pictures were taken. That was three weeks ago. Anyone know if the gates stayed clean?

++Touring Obama's New York

++Canal Street isn't the only area street vendors are feeling the heat from the NYPD. "New York City police, citing overcrowding, cracked down in September, chased out all vendors — licensed or unlicensed — from the north side of 125th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. Now the street’s original vendors have returned, but police are keeping a close eye on what they sell.

[Welcome to Northattan]

Harlem World

• Columbia University: And All Ye Who Enter Morningside Heights Shall Be Pure Of Hearts And Of Service To Our Young Students. "With the exception of a few buildings, Broadway's storefronts are owned by Columbia and University affiliates between 111th and 123rd streets. On Amsterdam, Columbia owns the majority of storefronts between 115th and 122nd...In 2006, a store owner told the Spectator that the University requires proprietors to submit business proposals and comply with certain stipulations in exchange for their favorable rental terms...'Columbia considers a variety of local needs before making a decision on the type of business that can become a business tenant. Beyond that, we do not comment on our negotiations.'" <The Bwog>
  
  
• Washington Heights resident not blowing smoke, documents neighborhood air quality violations on his blog, becoming the lead in neighborhood's quest to remedy an egregious environmental problem under their noses. Exposing an oft overlooked side to urban living uptown, photographing the thick black smoke that pours out of 671 West 162nd, while other residents converse in the comments about what steps they can take, no doubt aware that people power will move the issue. "Officials and politicians? Not even footnotes in this story, which is about the aggregation of capital and the relentless rise of the metropolis."
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• Some great fall shots of Upper Manhattan <Paz's New York Minute>
  
• Undiscovered Beach in Manhattan? <NY Daily Photo>
  
• Antibodies to cockroach and mouse proteins are associated with a greater risk for wheeze, hay fever and eczema in preschoolers, New York researchers say. <UPI.com>
  

Harlem World

Ain't no sunshine, photograph by Patricil.

• Harlem Newcomer the Maysles Institute Documents a Changing City <The Real Estate>
  
• So that explains seeing Russel Brand and his very attractive lady friend at the Loews theater yesterday; Russell Brand @ El Teatro del Museo del Barrio - 11.13.8 <The Apiary>
  
• Parents, Advocates in Washington Heights Urge State Leaders to Exempt School-Based Health Centers from Further Budget Cuts <Children's Aid Society>
• Blogger gives thanks to artist Manny Vega for his tile mosaics in EL Barrio
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• The Upper Manhattan Experience is about fostering a sense of community among the people who live, work and like to hang out in the Inwood/Washington Heights area of Manhattan. <MeetUp.com>
  
• StreetSquash Facility Opens In Harlem <NY1>
  
• Harlem’s IS 195 Renamed in Honor of Terence Tolbert <Uptown Flavor>
  
• Chronic Breakdowns; At the Wagner Houses in East Harlem, tenants like Angela Gonzalez, 76, have become inured to elevator problems. <NY Times>
  

Harlem World

A Kinky Deli, photograph by CarbonNYC.

• Taxman Spares Harlem Eatery <NY Post>
• Take an artsy walk around Harlem <Time Out Ny>
• Verizon to hand out free turkeys in Washington Heights <TCMnet>
  
• Harlem Holds Dedication For Harriet Tubman Sculpture <NY1>
• Tonight and Tomorrow, Harlem Tenants Council 2nd Annual Housing Conference
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• New York Rep. Charles Rangel has hired an accountant to pore over his personal finances as he faces an ethics committee investigation. <AP>
• Reading out loud: Literary venues for Latinos bloom in the city <Daily News>
  
• Woman Takes Command of 369th "Harlem Hell Fighters" <Read Media NewsWire>
  
• A leader of the consortium selected by city officials to build a mixed-use development on East 125th Street in Harlem has been dropped from the S&P 500 because its shares are virtually worthless <NY Observer>
• CITYarts, a non-profit public art organization in New York, had a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday to celebrate the restoration of the 36-year-old mosaic benches <UptownFlavor>
• Target Free Sundays at the Studio Museum offers free Museum admission every Sunday between 12 and 6 <Uptown Flavor>

Harlem World

Morningside park waterfall in Harlem

• Harvard For Harlem Families <Harlem World Magazine>
• Columbia Contemplates Cutbacks Due to Financial Crisis <Daily Intel>
• A blog devoted to the dogs of Washington Heights and their people. (!!)
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• "Aggressive, cheesy and overpowering - just like its inspiration - "Paolo" is not suitable if you're going out on a hit." <NY Post>
  
• Harlem Flo (floral atelier) A great little addition to the up and coming new businesses on Frederick Douglass Blvd. <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• The Abyssinian Baptist Church Men’s Ministry Presents Jazz at Abyssinian
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Harlem World

125th St looking east from Broadway

• The CW11's Lisa Mateo visits Talay -- a new restaurant in West Harlem, (not MePa.)
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• How "Change" Sounded On The Radio (Or Didn't) <The Infinite Dial>
  
• The Mayor's budget cuts include "closing libraries for a half day, eliminating dental programs and closing a clinic in East Harlem" <NY Times>
• The local economy in the upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood continues to be fueled by growth in small businesses according to a report released Thursday by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. <Empire State News>
  
• CB12 Committee Asks DOT for Dyckman Greenway Connector Study <Streetsblog>
  
• Tonight and Tomorrow at Maysles Cinema, free screening of Rezoning Harlem <Uptown Flavor>
  
• Harlem Locals Still Confront Language Gaps <Columbia Spectator>

New Study Released Finds Straphangers At 163rd St C Train Station View Less Than Average Number Of Advertisements

According to a new study released by NYC The Blog, (photo documentation to the right) straphangers using the C station on 163rd St are subjected to a smaller number of subway advertisements than the rest of the commuting public. In preliminary findings, NYC The Blog has determined commuters who regularly use the station to be less stressed out, less likely to day dream about Jennifer Furniture, and more likely to not know who Poster Boy is.

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