Amsterdam Avenue is kinda creepy and defiant but it gets smoother as you get close to City College. From 159th to 140th Streets it has a myriad of restaurants most of them Dominican and Jamaican and there is also an Ecuadorian place and couple of Mexican joints.
If you walk those blocks on a sunny day like today you will bump into many pastelitos cars and most of the barber shops are having a BBQ in the street.
There is a local bookstore that host educational workshops like "How to manage your finances right"; a bike shop managed by a diligent man with a glass eye; a fabrics store; a healthy foods place combine with a laundry; and a botánica, which reminds me to mention that there is a cemetery between 155th and 156th streets.
Today I found a small café with good pastry that also sells books. The place is really small but somehow manage to host a writers workshop ($5 bucks each session) and movie evenings.
The sad thing today was to see a bunch of undercover cops coming out after sunset like rats and roaches. They randomly picked up people and searched them, making clear they don't know what the warmest day in months is about it.
