The Black Comic Book Festival and the Schomburg Literary Festival ran across a full day and featured readings, panel ...

Mourners are paying their respects to former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel as his body lies in state at New York City Hall ...

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

Large residential buildings in West Harlem are now required to put trash in large bins on the street instead of in piles on ...

The program kick-started on city property last week — and is expected to cost nearly $600,000 annually for the ...

Native New Yorker Aziza Miller is an accomplished musician and former teacher, now playing piano on stage in Alicia Keys’ ...

Charles B. Rangel, a gravelly voiced and exuberant congressman from the Harlem neighborhood of New York who became the first African American chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee but was ...

Several Manhattan neighborhoods now have large curbside ... It’s part of an effort to rid New York City sidewalks of a notorious scene: rat-infested mounds of smelly, black garbage bags.

Fighting back against rats and garbage, the installation of 'Empire Bins' makes Manhattan Community Board 9 the first neighborhood to have trash fully containerized.

Elegant or rustic, a tangible, specific, and concrete Harlem can be explored in the book, “ Harlem Lost and Found: An Architectural and Social History, 1795-1915 ” by yours truly, Michael Henry Adams ...