The latest in Harlem

Two Prominent New York Politicians With Harlem Roots Entrenched In Scandal

2010-03-04T12:33:04Z

NEW YORK - MARCH 04: A poster of famous African American politicians, who have spent part of their careers in Harlem, is displayed in a Harlem storefront on March 4, 2010 in New York City. Harlem, the legendary epicenter of black political culture in America, has been shaken by the ethical ...

Woes of governor, Rangel mark end of Harlem 4 era

2010-02-26T16:16:14Z

<div id="subtitle">4 who led Harlem in political heyday fading with blows to local elites Paterson, Rangel</div><div><p>They ran the city, represented Malcolm X and were black pioneers who put Harlem on the political map. The "Gang of Four" were kingmakers who built Harlem's political dynasty into an empire. But with high-profile body blows this week to one member and the son of ...

Ailing Apartments

2010-02-21T09:00:15Z

In this Feb. 11, 2010 photo, a memo that went out to residents of Mary Fountain's apartment building when they had no gas or heat during the 2009 Thanksgiving holiday season is shown. This Bronx apartment building, where city housing violations have increased from 82 to nearly 600 in 16 months, is among thousands of rental properties from ...

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis

2010-02-21T09:00:05Z

<div id="subtitle">Mortgage crisis brings creeping decay to middle-class apartment buildings from Calif to NY</div><div><p>There was no heat or hot water, so for weeks Mary Fountain would fill a bowl and put it in the microwave, then strip off her extra layers to sponge herself clean.</p><p>Upstairs, her longtime neighbor, 70-year-old Gearaldine Davis, peers skeptically out at her balcony, hesitant to s...

Middle-class NYC housing complex to be sold

2010-02-22T11:57:29Z

<div id="subtitle">NY judge orders foreclosure sale of middle-class Harlem housing complex</div><div><p>A judge has ordered the foreclosure sale of the historic Riverton Houses, a middle-class Harlem apartment complex that plummeted in value amid the housing downturn.</p><p>The decision by State Supreme Court Justice Richard Braun, released Tuesday, called for the aucti...

yele press conference

2010-01-27T18:47:00Z

Wyclef Jean arriving at the National Action Network Headquarters in Harlem to attend a press conference New York City, USA - 27.01.10

Copyright 2010 NEW YORK - JANUARY 12: Marion Dantzler and Stephen St. Clair (R) of South Carolina Heating Fuel wait for a truck to move on their way to delivering heating oil to a building in Harlem January 12, 2010 in New York City. Crude oil prices leapt to a 15-month high in the past week as a prol...

Travel Trip Obama NYC

2009-11-16T11:01:47Z

This photo shows the 137th Street subway station in Harlem, a stop on a tour of Upper Manhattan called Obama’s New York. (AP Photo/Ray Kugler)

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Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up?

2010-02-24T07:58:36Z

<div id="subtitle">More resources needed if war on drugs is to shift more toward treatment than imprisonment</div><div><p>Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation's readiness to turn the talk into reality...

Drug War The Treatment Challenge

2009-11-08T11:45:22Z

This Oct. 22, 2009 photo shows Peter Provet, CEO of Odyssey House, speaking during an interview in New York. Odyssey House, a New York City nonprofit, serves 300 people at a residential treatment center in East Harlem. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Colleges Teaching Failure

2009-11-05T13:16:52Z

FILE - In this March 12, 2004 file photo, former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair speaks to an audience in New York's Harlem neighborhood. Rarely is the podium held by someone who is dealing with failure. That's too bad, educators say, because it's something so-ca...

DeCarava, photographer who recorded Harlem, dies

2010-02-24T12:36:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Roy DeCarava, photographer who captured Harlem's everyday life and jazz greats, dies</div><div><p>Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89.</p><p>DeCarava died in

Weight Watchers Presents Fun And Fit In The City

2009-10-11T00:15:53Z

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 10: (L to R) Creator of Food Network Lee Brian Schrager , Weight Watchers CEO David Kirchoff, Director of Share Our Strength Patricia Nicklin, New York US stop and question more than 1 million people each year</div><div><p>A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street. These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have...

Stop and Frisk

2009-10-08T13:32:35Z

Courtney Bennett, in a business suit, stands where he has been stopped and search by police in areas of Harlem, New York, Friday Sept. 4, 2009. Nationwide, more than a million people, mostly black and Hispanic men, are stopped, questioned and frisked annually by police. Nearly all are innocent of any crime, according to figures from departm...

People Scott Hamilton

2009-09-22T21:45:21Z

FILE - In this April 9, 2007 file photo, former Olympic figure skating gold medalist Scott Hamilton arrives for Figure Skating In Harlem's annual gala "Skating with the Stars" at Central Park's Wollman Rink in New York...

Jordan's Queen Rania Visits Harlem Girls School

2009-09-21T14:46:42Z

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 21: Queen Rania of Jordan speaks to students at the Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan September 21, 2009 in Oprah Winfrey saw herself in the lead character of the film "Precious" about an overweight, illiterate and abused Harlem teen determined to improve her life, she said Sunday.</p><p>Winfrey is co-executive producer of the film adapted from the 1996 Sapphire novel "Push," showing this week at the

Hostel reviews: Baltimore, Chicago, Harlem, L.A.

2010-02-25T13:42:21Z

<div id="subtitle">What's it really like spending the night in a hostel? Dispatches from 4 cities</div><div><p>About three years ago, Jim Williams, author of "Hostel Handbook" — http://www.hostelhandbook.com — noticed that new hostels were starting to open around the U.S., but "almost exclusively in destination cities —

9/11 aims to become single largest day of service

2010-02-25T15:10:00Z

<div id="subtitle">9/11 anniversary aims to become largest day of service, reviving 'unity and compassion'</div><div><p>President Barack Obama is asking Americans to volunteer on Sept. 11, making this year's anniversary of the terror attacks the first National Day of Service and Remembrance, organizers announced Thursday.</p><p>"Our ultimate goal is to leave...