New York City needs more housing. Everyone, from left to right, agrees. So a Harlem Community Board voting down a proposed ...

Image Firefighters outside of 108 West 139th Street in Harlem on Thursday.Credit...Katherine Marks for The New York Times Before Holiday’s death in 1959 at age 44, she had been living in a 6,300 ...

Henry Minton opened what would become an historic landmark in the story of Black music and culture -- now, after nearly a ...

The New York City Department of Emergency Management said​ that neighbors in the surrounding area should expect smoke and ...

The Schomburg Center is celebrating its 100th anniversary while preserving more than 11 million items in the archive.

Firefighters were putting out hotspots at the scene of a massive building fire in Harlem Thursday morning that they had ...

Gospel music, black history, and delicious carrot cake – a perfect combination for a wonderful celebration at Harlem’s oldest ...

NEW YORK - A massive 3 alarm fire burned through a multi-story building in Harlem on Wednesday night. The fire broke out at a ...

If you’re a fan of historical fiction, which half of that is most important to you: the history? Or the fiction? It’s entertaining to encounter actual people and events in a novel, where what we ...

Harlem’s 200,000-odd Negroes had their first representative in the New York City Council this week, and the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. took another step toward becoming the popular hero of U.S ...