Op-Ed: Have Police-Community Relations Improved From Harlem To Hollis?
By Michael McQuillan Police officers were friends when and where I grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the Sixties.
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The Caged Man In The Bronx Zoo Saved By Harlem’s Mount Olivet Baptist Church 1906
The black clergymen who had been summoned to Harlem’s Mount Olivet Baptist Church for an emergency meeting on the morning of Monday 10 September 1906, arrived in a state of outrage.
Harlem Pastor Thomas Of Harlem’s Presbyterian Church, A Friend Of Dr. King And An Enemy Of Trotsky
Norman Mattoon Thomas, November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968 was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
After Breach, Tweeter Urges All Users From Harlem To Harare To Change Passwords
Reuters reports that Twitter Inc., urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some to be stored in readable text on its internal computer system rather than disguised by a process known as “hashing”.
Harlem Fave Zora Neale Hurston’s Last Slave
A previously unpublished work by Zora Neale Hurston, in which the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God recounts the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, is set to be released next year, more than half a century after her death in 1960.
Comptroller Scott M. Stringer Releases Neighborhood-By-Neighborhood Report
In a first-of-its-kind report, Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today released a comprehensive neighborhood-by-neighborhood analysis documenting the evolution of New York’s economy since 2000 and the changing business landscape in communities across the five boroughs.
RWDSU President Stuart Applebaum Statement On The Closure Of Car Wash Uptown
This week, the Soft Touch Car Wash in Inwood, Manhattan closed; nearly a year after a $1.65 million settlement was won for workers who had their wages stolen, resulting in the business filing for bankruptcy.
NYC To Compensate Homeless Men For Destroyed Belongings In Harlem
The city will settle a lawsuit in which three homeless men claimed police officers and sanitation workers willingly destroyed their personal property including clothing, medications, birth certificates and social security cards.
WPIX-TV Helps HCCI And Sweet Mama’s Host 3rd Annual Thanksgiving Dinner
On Thursday, November 24, 2016, for the third consecutive year, Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc. (HCCI) joined Sweet Mama’s Soul Food & Salad Bar for a Thanksgiving dinner giveaway that almost didn’t happen.
Everything Harlem’s Sharpton Has Lived For Is At Stake
July 20, 2014, three days after Eric Garner suffocated to death during an arrest by New York City police officers for selling loose cigarettes, the Reverend Al Sharpton delivered the Sunday sermon at Riverside Church, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
How Harlem Tried To Save The Caged Man In The Bronx Zoo
The black clergymen who had been summoned to Harlem’s Mount Olivet Baptist Church for an emergency meeting on the morning of Monday 10 September 1906, arrived in a state of outrage.
Church of the Master, Harlem, New York, 1893
Church of the Master was at 360 West 122nd Street and Morningside Avenue, in Morningside area of Harlem, New York, 1893.
Harlem’s John A. Catsimatidis
John A. Catsimatidis (born 7 September 1948) is a Greek-American businessman. He is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes Foods, the largest grocery chain in Manhattan, and the Red Apple Group, a real estate company with about $700 million to $800 million in holdings.
Church of the Master, West Harlem, 1930’s
The Church of the Master opened as the Morningside Presbyterian Church in November 1893. William C. Haskell designed a little Victorian style building in orange brick in a neighborhood called Harlem of recently built brownstones opposite Morningside Park.
Harlemite Sean John Combs
Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, Diddy, and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. Combs was born in Harlem and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York.