With A Store In Harlem, Fairway Slumps As Epicure Options Grow

NY Times reports that today, Fairway shares trade around $1.80 — a little more than the price of three tangerines. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine. (You can unsubscribe anytime)Constant Contact Use. Please leave this…

Women And Negotiation: Are There Gender Differences?

Earlier this month, an essay by actress Jennifer Lawrence on the subject of pay in Hollywood generated numerous discussions on how – and how well – women negotiate. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine.…

Legal Lessons Harlemites Can Learn From Celebrity Break-Ups

By Hillel L. Presser Harlem girl Kelis divorced Nas, she has remarried having her second child, back in the day East Harlem’s Burt Lancaster had two marriages end in divorce. Sadly, there’s never a shortage of notable divorces, and outlets like TMZ are never dry on the topic. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select…

Participatory Budgeting Grows, But Not Everywhere

Gotham Gazette reports that in four years participatory budgeting has exploded from four to 27 New York City Council districts. With over 51,000 voters casting ballots last cycle to allocate a total of $32 million dollars to projects across the city, New York‘s experiment in direct democracy has quickly become the largest of its kind…

Harlem, Apply Now For NYC’s Entrepreneurship Lab

NYCEDC and design technologies, are pleased to launch the fourth year of Entrepreneurship Lab NYC. ELabNYC, the premier life science entrepreneur training and networking program, is now accepting applications for the 2016 program. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from…

Harlem’s Columbia First U.S. University To Prison Divest

West Harlem-based Columbia University has become the first college in the United States to divest from private prison companies, following a student activist campaign. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine. (You can unsubscribe anytime)Constant…

Harlem’s Riant Theatre Honors Liesl Tommy And Peter Anthony Andrews

The Riant Theatre will kick off the  Strawberry One-Act Festival with a launch party and reception  presenting Pioneer of the Arts Awards honoring  Liesl Tommy, Obie winning director from South Africa, and Peter Anthony Andrews, the first African American TV network entertainment vice president, on Sunday, July 26 at the Poet’s Den Theatre, 309 East…

Op-Ed: Democracy Depends On Exchanging Ideas. Do Leaders Listen?

By Michael McQuillan “Answer your mail.”  Mentors taught this as the first rule of politics when I worked in the U.S. Senate for Missouri’s Stuart Symington in the Seventies.  Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine.…

Dining With Miss Lil: Harlem’s Newest Pastry Shop

By Lil Nickleson Jolie Patisserie is the newest patisserie shop to open up in Harlem and is located at 2453 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in between 142nd and 143rd Streets.  Jolie Patisserie is the latest food business to be owned and operated Pastry Chef Moha Orchid. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter…

HW Pick: New York City’s Slave Market

On a recent NYPL blog post it stated that on June 27, a plaque marking the site of New York City’s main 18th-century slave market was unveiled in Lower Manhattan by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World…

East Harlem Deli Ran $2.7 Million Welfare Scam

Eight people have been charged with stealing $2.7 million from a government food program. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine. (You can unsubscribe anytime)Constant Contact Use. Please leave this field blank.By submitting this form,…

It Was All Good At The Teen Battle Chef Live In Harlem

On June 16, eleven New York high school students from Brooklyn Lab School, Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School and the George Washington Education Campus faced off in “Teen Battle Chef LIVE in Harlem,” an annual cooking competition celebrating achievements of students who participate in the Teen Battle Chef (TBC) program held this year…

Classical Theatre of Harlem to Present The Tempest

The 15th anniversary season of The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) (Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director; David Roberts, Managing Director) continues with CTH’s free, summer, uptown production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, presented in partnership with City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage festival. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World…