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The Ladder Up
A Restless History of Washington Heights
W. 179th St.
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Issue: Winter 2019 / Volume 95/4
Published: December 2, 2019
Updated: November 27, 2020
Carina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator living in New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Longreads, LitHub, Bookforum, the New YorkerOnline, Frieze, and elsewhere. She won Gulf Coast’s 2016 Prize for her translations...
Carlos Rivera is a Puerto Rican–born street photographer currently residing in New York City. His movement, #yerrruptown, has been steadily gaining traction on social media. Documenting everyday life Uptown, Rivera highlights the issue of social displacement that comes with gentrification. Currently his work is being featured in The Codes of...