By Gregg McQueen A united front. Black and Jewish community leaders and elected officials gathered in solidarity on Monday to express unity in the wake of an anti-Semitic hate crime in a Rockland County. On Saturday evening, December 28,…
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The Young People’s Chorus of New York City at Washington Heights (YPCWH), one of the community choruses of the award winning Young People’s Chorus of New York City is inviting students to be part of their after-school choral singing…
Primed for public service? Applications are open for the 2020 Urban Fellows Program. The program, open to recent college graduates, is a nine-month government fellowship that exposes fellows to urban issues impacting public policy and decision-making in New York…
Shout out once again to Pero Like for continuing to cover these important topics. But seriously folks, this one is really hard. In one corner you have the Dominican Republic and oxtails and in the other you have Puerto…
A couple, Erika and Josh, sit on a park bench. One professes their love for the other while the other one ends the relationship. However, one ends up dead and the other is interrogated. What really happened? We invite…
Hypebae put together an awesome profile of Harlem’s own Joani Johnson, who is changing the game for senior models of color. Click below to check out the insightful interview and bad ass pics. Check out: Joani Johnson Is Not…
The popular BET series “Finding” has a really cool episode on Washington Heights’ own Mims, who was ubiquitous in the late 2000’s due to his megahit “This Is Why I’m Hot.” The video tells the story of the massive…
In the summer of 2018, New York City police officer Michael J. Reynolds broke into a Nashville home adjacent to his Airbnb and terrorized the family of five living there. Conese Halliburton was asleep with her four young sons…
NYPD officer Michael Reynolds apparently works in Manhattan North. He should be fired. Giving him his gun, having him return to patrol East Harlem / Harlem / West Harlem / Washington Heights / or Inwood? That would be unconscionable.…
Get on the roll to ride. The city will launch an open enrollment period for its long-awaited Fair Fares program on January 27. All eligible New Yorkers at or below the federal poverty line who don’t have discounted transportation…