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For decades Wall Street has been a source of power and wealth. But in the last two years, the financial sector has lost more than 20,000 jobs.
The average bonus has dropped by more than a third and the financial sector has lost more than $35 billion in revenue this year.
Watch “The New Normal” on [...]
El Barrio. Spanish Harlem. SpaHa. Whatever you call it (hopefully, not that last one), East Harlem is a-changing and, according to Time Out New York Kids, this vibrant district has changed its moniker to suit its new style.
City Room
The camels almost didn’t come through this year.
Officials at El Museo del Barrio, the Fifth Avenue institution devoted to Latino culture and the arts of Latin America and the Caribbean, found themselves on the defensive after removing a $3,500 item from the budget for renting three camels and five sheep for the 32nd [...]
News
New details have emerged in the case of a 22-year old NY disabled man left on a freezing school bus overnight, New Years eve. The bus matron is under arrest, but what about the bus driver?
The man driving the bus that left 22-year old Ed Wynn Rivera stranded on it in freezing weather for almost [...]
Arts
How does Roberto Cavalli plan to spend his time to New York? With his hands covered in glue in East Harlem, for starters.
Last night, the affable Italian designer headed uptown to engage in a crafts project with local children benefitted by the non-profit organization Free Arts NYC.
“I have been a fan of Roberto for a long time, and [...]
He could have frozen to death.
On Thursday night police charged a 51-year-old woman for allegedly leaving a mentally and physically challenged man — overnight — on a bus for 19 hours.
Sports
When elementary school teacher Sonya Lamonakis brought the title belt she won from the Metro Championships in November to her classroom at the Family Academy in Harlem, her students ran around the room, clutching the strap over their heads in jubilee.
If Lamonakis is a larger-than-life figure to her sixth grade students, she is also a [...]
Charge of racism surfaced over a plan to move a mostly minority Upper East Side high school to Harlem to make way for the children of wealthy white local residents.
Frustrated parents say the city’s proposal to move Richard R. Green High School out of its 26-year home on East 88th Street to a building next [...]
Like an old war horse, Richard Ravitch, at age 75, is back in the middle of a financial mess that others created.
He’s the chief architect of a transit-rescue plan that if approved by state and city officials will hike fares by 8%, impose tolls on the free East River bridges and sock employers throughout the [...]
When the NY Times wrote about the newly resurgent area of 12th St. in West Harlem that runs along the Riverside Drive viaduct -which now features three nightclubs/restaurants seen in the photo to the right- they spent some time selling the area to it’s readers as the newest hot spot, describing it as “pulsating” “something [...]
Scores of East Harlem residents who roundly rejected Mayor Bloomberg in the last election said yesterday they’re ready to back the billionaire in his third bid for office.
“I think that I’ve seen major improvements in this community in the past couple of years in terms of safety and especially education,” said Tamara Davis, 36, an [...]
National civil rights leader Don Benedict, a tireless fighter and life long defender of social justice for more than 60 years, died early Thursday morning from complications due to a cerebral hemorrhage in a Vermont hospital near his summer home in the Town of Rutland. He was 90 years old.
Hurry to Patsy’s Restaurant in East Harlem as it celebrates its 75th anniversary with 1933 prices.
The offer is good all day Tuesday.
A 12-ounce New York cut steak and grilled salmon are going for 90 cents, a slice of pizza for 60 cents, and most beverages are 10 cents.
The Italian family style eatery says Frank Sinatra [...]
Harlem RBI Will Present the Farmers Market Featuring a Live Performance of “The Harlem Beat” On August 14
Harlem RBI , A 17- year- old youth development organization in East Harlem, will host a Farmers Market at 4-6 P.M on August 14th at Union Settlement on 104th Street and 2nd Avenue.
East Harlem is changing, and no one may know this better than Argentina Ortiz, a Dominican immigrant who for decades tended grape vines and apple, pear and plum trees in a community garden on Lexington Avenue and East 117th Street.
When she arrived at the garden one day this summer, the area was cordoned off and [...]
Many people, if asked when Hispanics began to reshape the Catholic Church in New York City, would probably put the date around 1950, when Puerto Rican migrants began arriving in Manhattan in large numbers. But in fact, Hispanics had exerted a powerful influence on religion and society in New York more than a century earlier, [...]
Albert Medina is a child of Manhattan’s Spanish Harlem. Calling himself “a descendant of those who came first” to what became known as El Barrio, Medina has spent much of his life trying to make it a better place.
His latest venture as president of the Spanish Harlem a labor of love, East River North Renewal [...]
A Landmark East Harlem Institution Celebrates its 75th Anniversary
Patsy’s 75 years and counting! Grilled 12 ounce New York cut steak, 90 cents? Grilled Salmon filet served with fresh lemon, 90 cents? Original coal oven pizza, 60 cents? Soda, ice tea, bottled water, 10 cents? Yes, unbelievable but true. Patsy’s Restaurant a landmark East Harlem institution [...]
City Council Speaker
Christine Quinn, Reverend Al Sharpton, and other community leaders gathered in East Harlem yesterday to paint over a mural (pictured) showing a rat with a noose around its neck and the slogan “Stop Snitching.” The phrase has become something of a mantra in recent years in high-crime neighborhoods, where speaking to the police [...]
There’s a way to get a trio of lively young women to forget there’s a movie camera around: Get them to talk about guys. Cheap guys. Guys who believe that the best romantic date spot is the McDonald’s around the corner.
That’s the setup for one early scene in “Up With Me,” an East Harlem story [...]
Boxers and coaches from the U.S. Olympic boxing team visited the Boys and Girls Club of East Harlem on July 10, teaching campers through a boxing inspired workout and signing autographs. Campers were given the opportunity to ask questions and received complimentary autographed mitts and posters from the team.
Campers, attending elementary and middle schools, engaged [...]
A disturbed young woman dangled herself from the roof of an East Harlem building yesterday morning before police hauled her in. Three times the barefoot woman hung by her arms from the precipice of 1878 Lexington Ave. as stunned onlookers gathered below.
Master mall builder Forest City Ratner and Blumenfeld Development Group have snagged another discount retailer for East River Plaza, the 485,000-square-foot suburban-style mall being developed in East Harlem along the FDR Drive, between 116th and 119th streets.
143 years ago slaves in Texas were among the first to receive word that they had finally won their first full measure of freedom. Just last Saturday members of the Pleasant Village Community Garden were among the first residents of Harlem to hold a “Juneteenth” celebration.
Puerto Rico’s, an afterthought trophy for the United States 110 years ago at the end of the Spanish-American War and an island in limbo since, has become an improbable player in the contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Its primary on June 1 could bolster Mrs. Clinton’s claim to a majority of the popular [...]
“Eat Out NY” host Kelly Choi goes to East Harlem to feast on nutritious dishes using the new book of good healthy recipes from neighborhood East Harlem residents and restaurants. See the video below:
This large southwest corner co-op on upper Madison Avenue includes a 300-square-foot planted terrace with views of the skyline and Riverside Church,
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