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Harlem Block to Make History – Again

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Water doesn’t trickle down from the right basin of Jeanette Davis‘ sink – it pours.

Puddles have formed under the kitchen cabinet of her W. 135th St. apartment, and the 58-year-old recently used a broom to evict a live rat from her neighbor’s mailbox.

“And this is what I go through every day,” she said.

But starting this winter, her building and its nine six-story companions along a historic row between Lenox and Seventh Aves. will be among the first affordable housing blocks in the country to undergo a green overhaul.

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Facebook Alibi Changes Status to Free

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Where’s my pancakes, read Rodney Bradford’s Facebook page, in a message typed on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 11:49 a.m., from a computer in his father’s apartment in Harlem.

At the time, the sentence, written in indecipherable street slang, was just another navel-gazing, cryptic Facebook status update — words that were gobbledygook to anyone besides Mr. Bradford.

But when Mr. Bradford, a skinny, short 19-year-old resident of the Farragut Houses, was arrested the next day as a suspect in a robbery, the words took on a level of importance that no one in their wildest dreams — least of all Mr. Bradford — could have imagined. They became his alibi.

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Pedicabs Pedal Uptown for Customers

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Pedicabs aren’t just for tourists anymore: Beginning next month, people in Harlem can come on and take a free ride.

Amir Chizic, owner of BicyTaxi NYC, is sending 10 pedicabs uptown to offer free trips within 20 blocks of 125th St.

The gratis rides will be supported – at least for the first three months – by advertising, he said.

“It’s such a good thing for the environment, you know?” said Chizic, whose business currently caters to the midtown tourist trade.

New Asthma Fears in East Harlem

Monday, May 4th, 2009

It’s being seen as part of a development and job boom for East Harlem.

But a new Costco is also creating concerns in a community with some of the highest asthma rates in the city.

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Saxman Finds ‘Place’ For Jazz History

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

New York Cheers Obama Victory

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Living to See the Day

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Red or Blue, Young Voters Get Active

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Challenger Goes Grassroots Vs. Rangel

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008