NEW YORK (AP) — In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a mass exodus known as ...

An area of Harlem is the first to have its trash fully containerized and picked up by a fleet of new $500,000 garbage trucks.

As New York City continues its battle against rats, West Harlem is taking the lead on trash containerization — a system set ...

NYC's West Harlem now has fully containerized trash collection, helping to reduce rat sightings and improve cleanliness.

In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown ... more educated counterparts left the New York City neighborhood in droves. But the tide turned when Percy Sutton, then the Manhattan borough ...