Uptown Stories offers after-school workshops led by professional writers and master teachers. Students learn the craft of writing, engage their imaginations, and join an exciting, supportive community. Workshops meet for ten weeks and conclude with a celebratory reading open to friends and family. Toensure Uptown Stories is accessible to all children, tuition is “pay-what-you-can.”
The St. Frances Cabrini Shrine overlooks the banks of the Hudson River and the neighboring state of New Jersey. The chapel houses the most precious remains of the beloved St. Frances Xavier Cabrini.
The Shrine is a center of welcome for new immigrants and pilgrims of many nationalities who come to pray and reflect daily. The shrine serves as a place for liturgies, weddings, religious services, and quinceañeras.
The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that largely date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century.
The building and its cloistered gardens—located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan—are treasures in themselves, effectively part of the collection housed there. The Cloisters’ collection comprises approximately two thousand works of art.
The Hispanic Society of America, located on Audubon Terrace, Broadway, New York, provides a free museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
The collections of the Hispanic Society are unparalleled in their scope and quality outside the Iberian Peninsula, addressing nearly every aspect of culture in Spain, as well as a large part of Portugal and Latin America, through the twentieth century.