The award-winning play SEED, by Radha Blank, opened on Friday at the National Black Theatre Opening Night Draws Hollywood and Harlem Stars

SEED, the award-winning play written by Radha Blank and directed by Niegel Smith, had its world and Off-Broadway premiere on Friday at the National Black Theatre in Harlem.

Salters Scene: 15th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival

Stacy Spikes, Curtis Jackson and Mario Van Peebles

While NY Fashion Week was dying down, the buzz around 15^th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival was picking up!  On Thursday September 15^th, the Urbanworld Film Festival kicked off again at the 34^th Street AMC Theatre.

Harlem Park to Park Presents Welcome To The Neighborhood!

The Neighborhood initiative is a NEW partnership between HP2P and the Harlem real estate community to Build Links Between new residents and the exciting retail, restaurant and lifestyle businesses located in the Central Harlem neighborhood (click here for more details).

Harlem Park to Park members invites you to a cocktail reception and presentation on Monday, October 3rd at Lido Harlem Restaurant at 5 pm.  Business tour to follow. (COMPLIMENTARY Harlem Park to Park gift bags will be distributed during the tour.)

Building Collapse At 125th and Frederick Douglass Blvd., (update)

At about 9:30 am this morning on St. Nicholas Avenue and West 125 Street the FDNY using all hands on deck for a two-story building under demolition with scaffolds has collapsed onto a city bus with numerous people inside and trapped, and one man thrown from the demolish into the street (see above).

HW Radio Podcast: Russell Shuler Says YES To Kids in Harlem, September 20, 2011, 6pm

Join Danny Tisdale host of Harlem World Radio Podcast show talks to Harlemites, basketball star, and founder Russell Shuler about the YES (Youth Education through Sports) foundation as he uses basketball to teach kids leadership skills in Harlem and the winners of the YES Foundation SMARTBALL Classic Championship 2011 winners.

Listen September 20, at 6pm here.

The Uptown Tea Series Introduces: Will Calhoun

Will Calhoun

Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 2pm Grammy Award-winning drummer Will Calhoun plays at The Dwyer Cultural Art Center .

Bette Midler Opens 103rd Street Community Garden In Harlem

Bette Midler, Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito, General Manager of WABC-TV Dave J. Davis, President of Disney Publishing Worldwide Russell Hampton.

Celebrate the Opening of the 103RD Street Community Garden, 105 East 103RD Street in East Harlem, between Park and Lexington Avenues. One block from the 103rd Street Subway stop (trains: 4, 6, 6-Express).

Water-Main Break Leaves Thousand Without Gas Or Water In Harlem (update)

Emergency crews are on the scene of a water main break at Central Park West and W. 106th Street.

The break was first reported at 11:35 a.m.

Hybrid Green: A Lexus on Every Level

In the eyes of most Americans, the Toyota Prius is the poster child, or in this case–poster car, for hybrid technology in automobiles. Using the tagline,  combines gas engines and electric battery power. 

Museum for African Art In Harlem Hosts 1st Annual Fall Benefit Honoring Leaders in African Art & Philanthropy

First Annual Fall Benefit & Silent Auction to Honor Charles Benenson (1913-2004), Founding Trustee, and Mannie Jackson, Chairman of the Harlem Globetrotters

On Thursday, October 6, 2011, the Museum for African Art will host its first fall benefit and silent auction at their future home, located at 1280 Fifth Avenue at 110th Street on Manhattan’s Museum Mile in New York.

In Da (Hamilton) Heightz For The Hamilton Grange Memorial Opening In Harlem (video)

By Yolande Brener

Although many New Yorkers may not know why the area from 135^th Street to 155^th Street on the west side is called Hamilton Heights, judging by the large turnout for the opening of his memorial, Alexander Hamilton has plenty of fans.

Harlemite Maria Davis Makes AIDS History With amfAR As They Celebrate 25 Years Of Research (video)

amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research and Harlem’s Maria Davis have come together to celebrate amfAR’s 25 years of work by telling her compelling story to share about her battle with HIV/AIDS and how she is defying the odds and making a difference.

Maria Davis, is a Harlemite who was diagnosed with HIV in 1995, she was a successful hip hop promoter and worked closely on Jay-Z’s first album ‘Reasonable Doubt’ before her world was turned upside-down.