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How a Bronx Family is Keeping Their 90-Year-Old Business Alive

Walk into Borgatti’s on East 187th Street and you’re standing in a shop that’s been there since 1935. The company uses many of the same recipes cofounder Maria Borgatti brought from Bologna, maintaining the same dedication to handmade pasta that defined the business nine decades ago. What makes Borgatti’s remarkable is that the business is

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The Harlem Renaissance of Seafood: Make My Fish Founders on Friendship, Foot Traffic, and a $100 Million Vision

THT: Hi, I’m Paul Jackson from The Harlem Times. I’m here in Yonkers at Make My Fish (MMF) with co-founders Joe Watson and Pat Ellerbe. Tell me a little bit about your background and how this dynamic partnership began. Joe Watson: Pat and I go way back. I was born and raised right here in Harlem, and so was

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The Classical Theatre of Harlem Launches “$25 for 250” Fundraising Campaign 

New monthly giving initiative invites supporters to sustain 25 years of free theatre, arts education, and economic impact in Harlem Harlem, NY — The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) announces the launch of its new fundraising campaign, “$25 for 250”, a monthly giving initiative designed to support and grow the organization’s free, community-centered programming. For more than 25 years, CTH

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E-MOVES FESTIVAL 2026

HARLEM STAGE ANNOUNCES  E-MOVES FESTIVAL 2026! Apr 20 – Apr 27, 2026 New York, NY – Harlem Stage is proud to announce its E-Moves Festival 2026. For more than 25 years, E-Moves has convened the world’s leading choreographers, dancers, dance companies, and artists of the Global Majority in an exploration of movement and message. Founded

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NYC’s Talented Tenth

Rev. Dr. Charles Butler is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Butler is employed by Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc. (HCCI) as the Vice President of the Equitable Development Department since 2003. He has assisted over 3500 individuals and families to become first-time homeowners. He has created and established the Small Business Workshop Initiative

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Mayor Mamdani’s New York

 By Daniel Rose Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been awarded by a huge outpouring of our voters the leadership of a uniquely complex urban metropolis, and the challenges he faces today in guiding it constructively are profound.   The municipal government’s current precarious financial position — due largely to improvidence of Mayor Mamdani’s immediately-preceding mayoral administrations of

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Affordable and Unique Classes for Seniors in the Heart of the Upper West Side

Here in New York, there is no shortage of opportunities for seniors looking for ways to spend their time. But so many of those opportunities come at steep, inaccessible fees. Council Lifetime Learning is different. Council Lifetime Learning (also known as CLL) engages older adults through a variety of interesting and stimulating classes, mostly focusing

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