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Mayor Bill de Blasio To Ask Feds About NYCHA Rent Freeze From Harlem To Hollis

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to ask federal officials to consider a rent moratorium for the city's public housing residents as the city grapples with the economic toll of the new coronavirus.Continue reading

A Great Day In Harlem Again, With An Homage From Photographer By Jonathan Kane

It will be another Great Day In Harlem when dozens of immigrants will be photographed in front of the Unisphere on Saturday, May 19, 2018, from 8 am to 11 am EST.Continue reading

86-Year-Old Harlem Driver Accused Of Fatal Hit-And-Run

NY Daily News reports an elderly hit-and-run driver who cops say mowed down a 9-year-old boy in Queens told police he didn’t know he hit anyone — and fled the fatal scene because he was being threatened by another driver.Continue reading

Apartment Building To Replace Harlem Supply Store

Plans have been filed to build an 8-story residential and commercial building on an East Harlem site currently occupied by a building supply store on East 106th Street near 2nd Avenue.Continue reading

New Development Mixed-Use Building In East Harlem

A Jackson Heights-based property owner has filed applications for an eight-story, 22-unit mixed-use building at 308 East 106th Street, in southern East Harlem.Continue reading

Harlem Speaker Mark-Viverito And Food Bank Encourage NY’ers To Use EITC

Harlem's speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito along with Council Member Daniel Dromm today visited Food Bank NYC in Jackson Heights to remind New Yorkers to file their taxes and to utilize the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) at free tax preparation sites at locations across the City. Continue reading