Harlem News

If one thing is certain about American consumer culture it is that bigger is better, especially if it is cheaper.

For many high-school and college dropouts, there are more possibilities beyond the McDonalds counter.

Applebee's, the national chain eatery, is slated to open in East Harlem this fall, which now marks a trend of national franchises opening shop in the Harlem area, New York Magazine reported.

Locative media art responds to two of the most definitive social issues of our times: the reorganization of everyday life by mobile computing technologies and the seeming assurance of ecological disaster in the foreseeable future.

A the time, the space was called Lenox Social , and it was open only for drinks and a few appetizers.

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., right, listens as Adam Clayton Powell IV endorses him at a New York event on May 23.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has endorsed Rep. Charlie Rangel - giving the longtime congressman a high-profile boost in his difficult reelection bid.

We're pretty liberal when it comes to alternative living situations , but these newly-listed properties understandably creep us out.

The woman killed by a hit-and-run truck driver at Union Square last week has been identified as Roxana Sorina Buta.

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Get your grill on! Send us your best BBQ recipe and you'll be entered in the BBQ in the BOROS contest.

Once again, the New York Public Library A is facing a proposed budget cut for fiscal year 2013 of approximately $43 million.

Along with the glamor and the gushing over auteurs that dominate the Cannes Film Festival, documentaries are among this year's strongest movies in the Official Selection.

Hal Jackson, a staple of New York radio for some 58 years has died. Mr. Jackson passed away in New York hospital on May 23rd.

Cool things are happening in Battery Park. Compost is decomposing, vegetables and herbs are growing, students are learning, and urban landscapes are shifting.

Talent night at Harlem's illustrious Apollo Theater offered the chance to appear at London's Hackney Empire in July Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem has a long, illustrious history going back to the discovery of Ella Fitzgerald there in 1934, up through Billie Holiday, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross and beyond.

New co-chairs of the Democratic Party in New York: Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, Harlem Assemblyman Keith Wright.

Metro-North will be operating 19 early "getaway trains" for those people looking to leave work early Friday to enjoy their long Memorial Day weekend, said spokesperson Marjorie Anders "It's not the busiest day because some people don't even come in but those people who did come in in the morning at their regular time, the vast majority leave early, ... (more)

It began with the crisis on Wall Street in 2008. Alexis Cuadrado , from Barcelona and now Brooklyn, remembered the poetry of the surrealist Federico Garcia Lorca , whom all Spanish students study in school.

As Russell describes it, the Kansas City jazz scene was founded on the combination of isolation from the jazz mainstream in Chicago and New York, and a vital night life that was depression-proof and unaffected by Prohibition, protected by the corrupt political machine of Mayor Tom Pendergast.