Archive for the 'Harlem' Category
Woman Found Beaten to Death in East Harlem Apartment
The police are investigating the murder of a 69-year-old woman in her apartment at 2400 moment Avenue. Helen Abbot’s body was found by her daughter on Sunday afternoon, after she hadn’t been heard from in two days. A medical examiner determined that she was strangled, stabbed and beaten to death.
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Harlem’s Battle of 125th Street Heating Up Again
The Columbia Expansion plan has been getting all the attention lately, but another big Harlem fight is about to heat up again. The Battle of 125th Street, aka the Bloomberg Administration’s big rezoning plan for 125th Street and environs, heads to the local community board for a vote tomorrow. What …
Ask Curbed: What To Do About Harlem Crack House?
The Bible tells us that we should love our neighbors as we love ourselves. that gentleman certainly does not follow that advice, but we can’t really blame him:
I’m wondering whether you can supply some suggestions as to the course of action that can be taken against a building next door to me. I re…
Another Harlem Fight: the Battle of 125th Street
The 125th Street development and gentrification discussion is about to get a little louder. The Sun reports that the Bloomberg Administration’s big rezoning proposal for much of the corridor is going be going to the local community boards for some feedback in coming weeks. The rezone would aim to re…
Rezoning Plan May convert Area of Harlem
The Bloomberg administration is seeking zoning changes that would allow for substantial new development along much of 125th Street, a move that could convert a major Harlem thoroughfare into a dense hub of activity. After avoiding the area for decades, developers are warming to the corridor as…
Touro College Brings Medicine to Harlem
Billing itself as the first medical school to open in New York State in 30 years, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine is celebrating its launch nowadays in Harlem, where it will occupy a renovated building that sat vacant for decades across the street from the historic Apollo Theater. The ne…
Is Harlem’s Kalahari the Ugliest New Condo Building?
Time Out New York’s new issue is all about Sights & Blights, and they pick out the best and worst of the city’s architecture (Chrysler Building good, Port Authority bad), green spaces, storefronts, streets and much increasingly. One category is new condo buildings, and TONY gives high compli…
Harlem ‘Losing Its Identity’ to Gentrification?
This daylight, amNY ventures into Harlem to take a look at businesses being forced out by increasing rents and gentrification, and suggests the neighborhood is “losing its identity.” It appends a “?” mark, but residents and trade owners leave no doubt approximately their opinions. One says the n…
A Harlem structure School Lights external the Book
When the elementary school students at the Harlem Success Academy on 118th Street sit in their classroom, their orange uniforms shine bright, like fresh basketballs. On the walk through the hallway to get to the cafeteria, however, the shirts turn a different shade as whether the basketball…
125th Street Named One of U.S.’s Great Streets
Harlem’s 125th Street is being named one of the ten Great Streets for 2007 by the American Planning organization. The street, which houses cultural landmarks such as the Apollo Theater, currently has a lot of development in the pipeline. The planning organization cited the $19 million Harlem P…
Harlem Shooting Victim Had Checkered Past
The 25-year-old man shot and killed by police Friday evening had a troubled history with the law and an official review of the shooting by the NYPD concluded that its officers acted properly. Plainclothes police approached Ronald Battle Friday night around 11 p.m., while responding to a complain…
Old School Harlem Development
A historic video on the development of Lenox Terrace in 1958 offers up “a great throwback of Swingin’ Harlem” and shows how they used to do it uptown. Starring Robert Moses, developer Robert S. Olnick and others. [Harlem 26.2]
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West Harlem Rezone to Appease Columbia Foes?
[Manhattanville photo via The Manhattan Institute]
Now that the Upper West Side business is taken care of, the City Council’s next big downzoning proposal deals with Manhattanville, the area of West Harlem where Columbia University is looking to build a 17-acre expansion. A point of contention …
