Harlem News

This weekend Opera returns to Harlem. Art also makes a big statement uptown. While a Harlem landmark has a birthday.

A snowstorm forecast to drop up to 2 inches of the white stuff on the Big Apple barely dusted the city Saturday morning.

Classes A-MFX through C have been placed on Rating Watch Negative based on an increase in Fitch expected losses following a preliminary review of the transaction's 49 specially serviced loans, six of which are within the top 15 loans in the pool.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn promised more affordable day care for middle-class families and a new approach to education in her annual State of the City address Thursday, which was widely seen as a preview of her anticipated run for mayor.

This year's Just Food conference, set for Feb. 24 and 25, will feature a Good Food Jobs fair , giving job-hunters facetime with potential employers in the food justice and sustainable agriculture fields.

Although Small's Paradise is empty now, at 2294 H Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Boulevard, on the southwest corner of 135th Street, was Ed Small's Paradise, one of Harlem's most popular jazz clubs and restaurants from the 1920s to the 1940s.

It was 1995 and budding New Orleans actress Antonia Badon auditioned to play Zora Neale Hurston in a show about the famous Harlem writer's life.

Recent entries: Dorm District Fun City Christians In Action Big Blue Apple Full Blown Idiots More new entries... Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple , a hit song from 1937.

A black skillet, a heat gun, pigments and beeswax take up a corner of LeRone Wilson's art studio in Harlem.

Jazz Hayden and the Fight Against Stop-and-Frisk An unlikely activist's battle with the NYPD's frisky business By Graham Rayman February 08, 2012 Village Voice Jazz Hayden might be the most unlikely character in the long-running controversy over the NYPD's stop-and-frisk campaign, which has affected more than 4 million New Yorkers since 2004.

When A$AP Rocky's DJ dropped "Brand New Guy," a thunderous track from last year's "LiveLoveA$AP," the sold-out crowd at Baltimore Soundstage lost it.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival announces its monthly public meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 21, at Fells Point Corner Theatre, 251 South Ann Street, Baltimore, MD 21042, 410-276-7837. After the meeting, at 8:30 p.m., there will be a staged reading of Holler by George P. Tilson, directed by Patricia Woolsey.

Red Lobster is rolling into Harlem at 261-267 W. 125th St. to anchor a new project next door to the Apollo Theater.

Health Department today announced that new HIV data shows a 41% drop in deaths among black persons living with HIV/AIDS between 2001 and 2010.

Jazz Hayden might be the most unlikely character in the long-running controversy over the NYPD's stop-and-frisk campaign, which has affected more than 4 million New Yorkers since 2004.

The weekend Times published an obituary of Una Mulzac, founder of Liberation Bookstore, the Harlem bookstore that became a well-known and well-loved for selling books about African American identity and racial justice.

February 6, 2012 NEW YORK -- A group of Gulf Coast musicians and Flora-Bama owner Joe Gilchrist are taking New York City by storm, or perhaps more accurately, by song.

Metro-North Railroad is adding extra trains for commuters that want to go to New York City to attend the ticker tape parade for the Giants.

Fans of Soul Train boogied down Broadway wearing afro wigs and bell bottoms Saturday while others recounted their favorite episodes at a Harlem meeting hall in tribute to the show's late creator, Don Cornelius.

As soon as the Patriots missed the last pass and the New York Giants won the Super Bowl, the entire city was whooping and hollerin'. Seriously, there was a collective whoop, and even through the sound proof windows you could hear New Yorkers yelling.