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Don’t Throw It Away, Get A Grant For A Repair Project And Reuse It From Harlem To Hollis

Citizens Committee for New York City is partnering with the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB) and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer to launch our newest grant initiative: NYC Reuse and Repair. Continue reading

Bassett, Health Commissioner Passes Legislation To Curtail Tobacco Use From Harlem To Hollis

Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett on passing of comprehensive tobacco legislation package with effects from Harlem to Hollis, Queens: “The City today took a major stride toward improving the health of New Yorkers by passing a comprehensive legislative package to further curtail tobacco use. Continue reading

De-What? 12 Churches From Harlem To Highbridge Are De-consecrated For Sale

NY Curbed reports that the Catholic church has deconsecrated 12 churches in Manhattan and The Bronx, paving the way for their repurposing or sale.Continue reading

NYPD Gives Out Seniors Safety Bracelets To Stop Crimes In Harlem

NY Daily News reports that the NYPD is blowing the whistle on crimes against the elderly. The department handed out reflective bracelets that come with high pitch alarms to seniors Tuesday as it launches a new initiative to protect the elderly from an uptick in assaults.Continue reading

Harlem’s Ydanis Rodriguez Opening Statement At Transportation Hearing On MTA Subway Issues

On Tuesday, August 8th, 2017, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez delivered the following opening statement at the NYC Council Transportation Committee hearing on the MTA and its subways.Continue reading

de Blasio Proposes “Fair Fix” Tax On Wealthiest To Pay Low Income Fares And More

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled today a progressive City tax proposal aimed at raising as much as $800 million annually for New York City’s deteriorating subway and bus system. Continue reading

Rachel Lindsay + Fiancé At Build

Rachel Lindsay may not have found a lasting relationship on "The Bachelor," but the beautiful attorney from Texas did win over audiences with her bright smile and laid-back Southern charm and was back on track to find the right partner. Continue reading

David Alan Grier Talks “Snap Decision” At Build

Created by veteran producer Scott St. John and hosted by [easyazon_link identifier="B01MQJR7YU" locale="US" tag="harlemworld-20"]David Alan Grier[/easyazon_link], "Snap Decision" puts preconceptions, first impressions and gut instinct to the ultimate test.Continue reading

Harlem Book Fair Award Winner Brooke Obie On The Danny Tisdale Show (Audio)

Listen to Brooke Obie, as she talks winning this year's Harlem Book Fair 2017 Wheatley Award winner for her Book of Addis, and more with Danny Tisdale host of The Danny Tisdale Show.Continue reading

Sidewalk Collapses Uptown, Leaves Mother Of Two Seriously Injured

NY Daily News reports that a sidewalk collapsed beneath a woman in Washington Heights on Saturday, leaving her seriously injured after a terrifying 6-foot plunge.Continue reading

DOE Fails To Provide Harlem Schools With Librarians

NY Post reports that school librarians are all but extinct in Harlem. The Department of Education has failed to provide librarians at 87 percent of Harlem schools that are legally required to staff them, according to a group of activists.Continue reading

Christopher Fagan And His Dog Spruce’s “Point Of Rocks,” 128th Street Harlem Home, 1895

Hatching Cat NYC reports that in 1895, 71-year-old Christopher Fagan was alone in the world. All his family and friends had died and he really had no place to call home.Continue reading

Disney Doubles Down On Marvel TV (Includes Harlem’s Luke Cage) Deal With New York State

Crains NY reports that the Walt Disney Co. is more than doubling what was already the largest television production project in the state with an extension of its live-action miniseries set in New York City and produced by Marvel Television for Netflix, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and representatives of Disney, Marvel and Netflix jointly announced today.Continue reading

Slain NYPD Cop Shot In Harlem Honored With Street Naming

Nearly two years after NYPD cop Randolph Holder was fatally shot by a reputed gangbanger, hundreds of uniformed officers and family members joined together Friday to rename the Queens street where he grew up in his honor.Continue reading

Pols. Take Marathon Subway Ride To Hear Harlem Commuter Complaints

The Patch reports that Dirty platforms. Crowded trains. And, above all, chronic delays. Those are some of the complaints dozens of New Yorkers related to politicians as they toured subway stops on Thursday.Continue reading