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New $4.8M New York Public Library Branch Opens In Partnership With NYCHA In Harlem

The New York Public Library's new Macombs Bridge branch opened Thursday in Harlem following a $4.8 million project yielding a library that is five times the size of the branch it's replacing.Continue reading

Public Housing Residents From Harlem To Hollis March To NYCHA Over Slum Conditions

Dozens of residents of Holmes Towers and Stanley Isaacs Houses filed a group Housing Part action today demanding NYCHA fix the broken elevators, vermin infestations, lack of heat and hot water, broken intercoms and other issues facing residents. Continue reading

WE ACT Receives Grant To Build Power Among NYCHA Tenants In Northern Manhattan

Harlem-based WE ACT for Environmental Justice (WE ACT) has been awarded a $400,000 grant over two years. Continue reading

The Major, Uptown’s Rodriguez And Others Call For Design-Build Authorization For Infrastructure Projects

Agency officials and members of the de Blasio administration gathered at the Whitehall Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry to urge the Governor to sign the NYC Design-Build Act. Continue reading

Federal Monitor Approves NYCHA’s Heat Action Plan From Harlem To Hollis, Queens

Federal Monitor Bart M. Schwartz and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) today issued the Heat Action Plan. Continue reading

The 125th Street BID Announces Our Annual Harlem Light It Up 2019 Event

At a recent event, held at Settepani Restaurant on Malcolm X Blvd., the president and CEO of the 125th Street Business Improvement District, Barbara Askins,Continue reading

Federal Monitor And NYCHA Announce Action Plan For $450 million In State Reimbursement Funding

Today Federal Monitor Bart M. Schwartz and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) announced the Action Plan.Continue reading

Community Voices Heard, Speaker Corey Johnson, Tenants Rally For NYCHA Funding

Community Voices Heard, Speaker Corey Johnson, NYCHA residents, community-based organizations, labor, and faith leaders rallied to call for the immediate release of state funds for urgent capital repairs at NYCHA developments. Continue reading

Town Hall To Challenge NYCHA Sales Of Public Housing From Harlem To Hollis

NYCHA residents from around the city, led by the Holmes-Isaacs Coalition with the support of Justice Center en el Barrio, are joining together for a town hall on Thursday, September 26 to demand sustainable and livable NYCHA housing without privatization.Continue reading

NYCHA’s Federal Monitor Under Microscope For Hiring Harlem lobbyist As A Consultant

An ex-state assemblyman’s appointment as a consultant with the federal monitor overseeing the New York City Housing Authority has raised concerns among federal housing officials and has been referred to federal prosecutors for review, the Daily News has learned.Continue reading

Harlem NYCHA Public Complexes And Repairs To Transition To Private Management

Two Harlem public housing developments operated by the New York City Housing Authority will be transitioned to private management in an effort to secure needed repairs at the buildings, city officials announced this week.Continue reading

Citi Bike Partners With NY’s Public Libraries To Offer One Month Of Free Citi Bike Rides For Those In Need

Low-income New Yorkers from Harlem to Hollis can access more than just a book at the city’s three public library systems — as of this past week, they can get a free month of Citi Bike too.Continue reading

City Tests Harlem NYCHA Complex For Legionnaire’s Bacteria

Water systems at a Harlem public housing complex is being tested for the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's Disease after two residents fell ill with the disease in the past year, city health officials said.Continue reading

de Blasio Announces Details Of Major Citi Bike Expansion From Harlem To Hollis

The de Blasio Administration joined Lyft to today announce the boundaries of the planned expansion of Citi Bike over the next five years, which will bring the nation’s largest bike share system to a larger and more economically diverse range of communities.Continue reading

Dozens Of Lead-Poisoned Kids Left In Their Contaminated NYCHA Apartments

Children from Harlem to Hollis, Queens remained in nearly three dozen public housing apartments potentially years after city inspectors discovered definitive evidence of lead paint in their homes from Harlem to Hollis.Continue reading