Harlem News

Susan L. Taylor, founder and CEO of National CARES Mentoring Movement and Editor-In-Chief Emeritus, Essence Magazine For six weeks beginning November 27th, businesses around Harlem will display boxes labeled "Harlem CARES," where customers can leave donations for the Harlem CARES Mentoring Movement.

Many American cities, and New York City specifically, have been besieged by an epidemic of random gun violence that has victimized far too many people.

This row of apartment buildings on W. 135 St. in Harlem will be the first affordable housing units in the nation to undergo a green overhaul.

It is heartbreaking to me that the revival of Finian's Rainbow, that received enthusiastic reviews by the critics and boasts stellar performances, a gorgeous score and a clever book, is only filling its theater to 2/3 capacity while the Bye, Bye, Birdie revival that received scathing notices is selling out? Why is this the case? Well, Finian is ...

After being without the annual jazz festival this past June for the first time in 37 years, jazz fans from around the world can celebrate the music at the CareFusion New York Jazz Festival June 17-26, 2010.

Published Friday 20 November 2009 01:17am EST. A collection of quilts and photographs wove the biography of artist Faith Ringgold and her family together with the story of Harlem on Thursday night.

Stanley Kubrick, reflected in a mirror, photographing a showgirl, Rosemary Williams, in 1949.

After getting struck by a stray bullet, Virginia Valree discussed the ordeal from her hospital bed.

Jeremiah Miller calls the time Barack Obama spent in New York "the lost years," because that period from 1981 to 1985 is not as well-known as his roots in Hawaii or his recent years in Chicago.

Jeremiah Miller calls the time Barack Obama spent in New York "the lost years," because that period from 1981 to 1985 is not as well-known as his roots in Hawaii or his recent years in Chicago.

A week in the life of actor, musician, music director and talk show host Seth Rudetsky.

Jeremiah Miller calls the time Barack Obama spent in New York "the lost years," because that period from 1981 to 1985 is not as well-known as his roots in Hawaii or his recent years in Chicago.

The anticipated new Broadway production of Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Tony Award winning musical Ragtime opens today, Sunday, November 15, 2009.

On October 15, fashion was rocking in Harlem! The Harlem's Fashion Row Collections S/S 2010 was created to showcase emerging designers in the Harlem community.

For a generation, Rob and Laura Petrie were the face of New Rochelle, on TV's 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' For the foreseeable future, when  Broadway audiences think about New Rochelle, they'll think of Ron Bohmer, Christiane Noll, Dan Manning, Bobby Steggert and Christopher Cox.

Shortly before I set off on my four-night trip to New York - my first time in the city - a friend advised me to steer clear of the Empire State Building.

Manhattanites and other New Yorkers have a new destination for their warehouse club shopping needs -- Costco in Harlem.

You could consider George Carlin's "Last Words," a 20-some-years-in-the-making memoir he called a "sortabiography," as the comic genius's answer to Michael Jackson's "This Is It." Told in his own voice and based mainly on taped interviews with humorist and co-author Tony Hendra, this posthumous work by the cranky provocateur who dared us to laugh ...

On October 24th, Chef One, a Brooklyn food manufacturer, hosted the first ever New York City Dumpling Festival at Sara D. Roosevelt Park in Manhattan, benefiting the Food Bank For New York City.

From left: the Toy Museum of New York, inside St. Ann and Holy Trinity Church at 157 Montague Street, and Empire Diner at 210 10th Avenue In Midtown, Italian flat bread sandwich chain Piada has opened a location on the corner of 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue.