The rats moved into the green space after a church building across the street was demolished.
A former JP Morgan Chase banker is suing the company for pressuring him to relocate to a low-performing Harlem branch.
The historic district honors the cultural and political achievements of the area's African-American population in the 20th century.
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Street games from the '60s and '70s are coming to Thomas Jefferson Park on Saturday, April 28.
Year-round market plans big increase in vendors for warm weather months
The installation is an exact reproduction of educational exhibits at the Children's Museum of Manhattan.
The bar will no longer be allowed to serve alcohol after a rash of violent altercations.
The brand-new Martin Luther King, Jr. Park reopened Tuesday after a renovation project.
Congress approved a name change for the post office branch on Macombs Place and West 154th Street.
Bike ridership in Harlem is growing, but there's little dedicated space for cyclists, according to the city Department of Transportation.
The buildings include a former meatpacking facility, a school that is now home to artists and East Harlem's first public high school.
Thirty-four single mothers and their children will have access to housing and on-site social services.
Central Harlem residents called 311 at a higher rate than any other neighborhood between 2010 and 2015.
Walker served as pastor of Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church and was an adviser of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Legal Aid Society fears that the recently-passed rezoning will displace more rent-stabilized residents than the city predicts.
At least 6 Harlem restaurants are participating in Uptown Restaurant Week.
The campaign has inspired others to raise money for screenings of Marvel's newest superhero movie in different cities.
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The Harlem-125th Street station is one of five Metro North Railroad stops getting design improvements.
The 5-year-old boy was found when a cab driver called police after spotting him blocks away from the school.
The city's $101 million investment will fill in a gap between East 125th and 132nd streets with a seven-block park.
The 1st Spanish United Methodist Church, located on East 111th Street, is associated with Puerto Rican activist group the Young Lords.
The new historic district would protect late-19th century row houses in a portion of Central Harlem.
The trash cans will remove a food source for pests along East 116th Street, Third Avenue, and East 125th Street.
The former P.S. 186 building on West 146th Street is now an apartment building and clubhouse for the Harlem Boys & Girls Club.
Harlem's Pillars Recovery Center will help people find services such as support groups and 12-step programs
The New York City Council zoning and land use committees voted Tuesday to approve the city's East Harlem rezoning plan with modifications.
Skaters and bikers flocked to the opening of East Harlem's first skate park Wednesday.
The playground features new basketball hoops, a turf field, a running track and green infrastructure that will absorb stormwater runoff.
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A community forum to discuss the city's rezoning proposal for East Harlem has been scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 2.
The Parks Department will hold a community meeting Thursday to discuss planned upgrades for the Harlem Lane Playground.
Check out photos of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's new and improved spaces.
The new field is one of two coming to Harlem through the New York City Soccer Initiative. Nine other fields were opened throughout the city.
"Moonlight" director Barry Jenkins is adapting James Baldwin's "If Beale Street Could Talk" to film.
The city will expand a program that built farms at public housing developments in Brownsville, Canarsie and East Harlem in 2016.
A tiny plot of land in East Harlem beat hundreds of city gardens in a contest for best bouquet.
The new protected bike lane would stretch 10 city blocks on Fifth Avenue.
The city Parks Department is holding a second community review session for plans to extend the East River Esplanade to Harlem River Park.