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The Legendary Carmansville, The Most Beautiful, Picturesque Hamlet In Harlem, NY, 1853-

In the July 1868 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, a poet named Charles Dawson Shanly, 1811-1875 wrote an article about traveling the road along the Hudson River, in which he described the upper Manhattan countryside.Continue reading

Congregation Ramath Orah The Orthodox Synagogue On A Mountain Of Light, Harlem, 1921

Congregation Ramath Orah is an Orthodox synagogue located at West 110th Street on the Upper West Side, close to Columbia University in Harlem.Continue reading

Ledisi, Live At The Troubadour A Virtual Experience (Video)

Join NJPAC for a soulful live-stream concert with Ledisi: Live at the Troubadour. Continue reading

The Beautiful Pool And Loch In The North Woods And North Meadow Of Harlem Creek 1860’s –

North Woods and North Meadow are two interconnected features in the northern section of Central Park, around the Harlem Meer aka Harlem Creek, close to the Upper West Side in Harlem, NY.Continue reading

Congressional Rep. Adriano Espaillat Re-Elected In NY’s 13th District In Harlem

Adriano Espaillat easily fended off two challengers in Tuesday's general election to win another term in Congress, NY1 projected.Continue reading

The End Of Harlem Farmland, “The Greatest Grid,” Demolition At Eight And 106th Street 1870’s

An amazing photograph looking North at the demolition of Harlem's former rolling hills into "The Greatest Grid," at Eighth Avenue from 106th Street looking northeast towards West Harlem around the 1870s. Continue reading

Pepper Spray Attacks Investigated As Anti-White Hate Crimes In Harlem

A woman is facing charges for a two-day string of attacks in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx that is being investigated as a possible hate crime, according to police and reports.Continue reading

Missing Harlem Man Last Seen On Upper West Side

Patch reports the NYPD is asking for the public's help to locate a missing Harlem man who was last seen at an Upper West Side community center, police said.Continue reading

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. Continue reading

NYC To Conduct Adulticiding To Reduce West Nile Virus From Harlem To Hollis

To reduce mosquito activity and the risk of West Nile virus, the Health Department will conduct its ninth adulticide treatment of the season. Continue reading

Harlem Woman Beaten, Set On Fire Inside Her Home Now In Harlem Hospital

NY Post reports that a woman was badly beaten then set on fire inside her Upper West Side apartment Tuesday morning — and now cops are on the hunt for her neighbor, authorities said.Continue reading

East Harlem Target Shopping Cart Attack Left Woman Incapable Of Physical Intimacy

Patch reports that an Upper West Side philanthropist left brain-damaged when a shopping cart was dropped on her in East River Plaza mall is a "shadow of her former self," rendered incapable of physical intimacy, the woman's lawyer said.

Isaac Kassirer To Buy $100M UWS Harlem Portfolio

Isaac Kassirer is expanding into the Upper West Side, with the pending purchase of a three-building multifamily portfolio for just shy of $100 million, The Real Deal has learned.Continue reading

Look At New Development In West Harlem

The Upper West Side doesn’t often see major new residential developments, especially of the affordable variety, which is why HPD’s plans for 145 West 108th Street, on behalf of the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing, are somewhat surprising. Continue reading

Flames Engulf Car Outside Harlem Meer At Central Park

NY Daily News reports that a car erupted in flames just outside Harlem Meer at Central Park early Friday.Continue reading