East Harlem

Highly organized drug ring relied on 8-year-old as a lookout

2012-01-19 16:37:30

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Seen it? The Elements of Style rap [video]

2012-02-17 16:35:37

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Piri Thomas dies at 83; Latino writer

2011-10-23 00:00:00

For Piri Thomas, being a dark-hued Latino in 1930s New York was far from the best of worlds. His siblings were fair-skinned, like his Puerto Rican mother, but he took after his black Cuban father, whose unsettled feelings about race scarred both of them....

Shopping cart is dropped four stories -- onto N.Y. woman's head

2011-11-01 16:36:08

Watts House Project lands $370,000 grant

2011-09-20 16:33:23

Your morning fashion and beauty report: Orlando Bloom fronts for Hugo Boss, Target plans a new Harlem-inspired collection, Chanel roars.

2010-07-07 16:32:15

Max Lawrence dies at 98; co-founder of L.A.'s Architectural Pottery

2010-08-01 00:00:00

Max Lawrence, a successful meatpacker whose appreciation of midcentury modern design led him to co-found Architectural Pottery, an influential Los Angeles company that produced sculptural planters and urns coveted by collectors today, died of natural...

Tourondel, bound for Hollywood

2007-10-17 00:00:00

Three years ago Laurent Tourondel was a chef without a kitchen whose name was anything but a household word. Today the 40-year-old has an empire so well known it can use shorthand for Bistro Laurent Tourondel: BLT. This month his second cookbook has just...

The New York bodega fights for its life

2008-08-08 00:00:00

The 7 a.m. sun gleams off the windows of this East Harlem bodega, as its owner, Julio Pimentel, unlocks the door and steps behind the counter that separates him from customers. He switches on a fan and tunes the radio to a Spanish station, and merengue...

Helen Levitt dies at 95; New York street photographer of poignant dramas

2009-04-01 00:00:00

Helen Levitt, who pioneered street photography in the United States in the 1930s, taking pictures of small, poignant dramas with the help of an inconspicuous Leica camera, died Sunday at her apartment in New York City. She was 95. The cause was...

Amid Boy Scout turmoil, other groups hope to grow

2013-02-18 12:28:00

NEW YORK (AP) — With the Boy Scouts of America entangled in a furor over its ban on gays, lesser-known youth organizations across the ideological spectrum see an opportunity. They wonder if the turmoil might prompt some families to give them a...

Holiday shopping season off to record start

2012-11-26 06:54:00

NEW YORK (AP) — If you make holiday shopping convenient, Americans will come in droves. It's estimated that U.S. shoppers hit stores and websites at record numbers over the Thanksgiving weekend, according to a survey released by the National...

East Harlem Pharmacy Robbery Shooting Location

2012-04-12 00:00:00

Pat Jackson stokes a fire as she makes French fries at Polk's sanctuary. Jackson says she is homeless by choice and has been so for two years.

2011-03-11 15:13:00

Jamie Daugherty, a forester for the New York City's Department of Parks & Recreation, surveys trees in East Harlem. MillionTreesNYC has paid special attention to East Harlem because the neighborhood lacked shade and has one of the highest asthma rates in the nation.

2009-10-14 17:09:40