News for Harlem and the Harlems of the World
Life has not been a rose garden for Maranlely Rosas since she found herself without a home or a job. At 22, Rosas, the mother of two little girls ages 5 and 2, felt as if her world was crumbling around her. “I was living day by day, and I was very worried about my […]
Along the walkway of the Washington Houses community center, past a flier for talent show auditions flapping in the wind, a bright yellow mural reads, in part: “Thrive, Not Just Survive.” Inside the squat building of drab cinder block one recent morning, grayed men and women chatted over Spanish-language newspapers and lunchtime ravioli. In another room down
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Good news, dance lovers: After an eight-year-plus hiatus, the ballet company Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) is back! “Believe, Again” shouts the banner ad on DTH’s website. Next to the beaming face of a young dancer named Michaela, a quote reads, “I believe because I am the little girl who dreamed of being a ballerina and
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An expo this weekend features homes for sale in a hot neighborhood, and for the first time ever, the expo is focusing on Harlem. There are a variety of types of places on the market being featured. “Everybody wants a piece of Harlem,” said Charlie Lewis, Warburg Realty broker. How about living right here? A
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Hundreds of fast food workers and supporters protested outside New York City restaurants Thursday to demand higher wages for their low-paying jobs, including about 60 at a midtown Wendy’s who chanted: “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Minimum wage has got to go!” Linda Archer said she has worked at a nearby McDonald’s for three years and
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The Eagle Academy Foundation is opening a new all boys’ school in Harlem, The Eagle Academy for Young Men in September. The Eagle Academy School will take residents in the building on Edgecombe Avenue that currently housing the Bread and Roses Integrated Arts High School, which will be phased out class by class until 2016.
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State Sen. Malcolm Smith and city Councilman Dan Halloran were arrested this morning on charges they were plotting to rig this year’s mayoral election through fraud and bribes. The pols allegedly formed an alliance built on cash payments and fraud to get Smith — one of the state’s top Democrats — placed on the GOP
They toasted their greed inside a Manhattan hotel, raising glasses in one hand while reaching for payoffs with the other. Valentine’s Day meant envelopes stuffed with cash. And Election Day meant trying to bribe their way onto the citywide ballot — or even into City Hall as Mayor Bloomberg’s successor. The corruption complaint that left
At the beginning of each tourist season, the entrepreneurs who pitch the thrill rides, hot dogs, sideshows and souvenirs at gritty Coney Island gather along its famous boardwalk to pray for two things: good weather and large crowds. Never have they prayed harder than now. Five months after Superstorm Sandy’s surge swamped New York City’s
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Neveah Mosher — a 13-year-old from the South Bronx — read more in 2012 than some people do in their entire high school careers. According to HooplaHa.com, the middle schooler reads 300 books a year. This is a goal she set for herself because she wants to be the first person in her family to
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