The Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means tax-writing committee has also come under scrutiny for his apartments he rents in his home district of Harlem.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 5, 2008.

The last remaining major private landowner in the footprint of Columbia University's planned West Harlem expansion issued a lengthy critique of the state's use of eminent domain to acquire his property, laying the groundwork for a legal battle that will likely lie ahead.

Published by The New York Observer on September 4, 2008.

Presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama will be in New York City on September 11, not only to remember those lost in the terrorist attacks, but to take part in a forum at Columbia University.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 4, 2008.

The fiance of an innocent man stabbed to death on a Harlem street said Wednesday his slaying was murder, not mistaken identity - and praised prosecutors for indicting his killer.

Published by New York Daily News on September 4, 2008.

Organizers say Columbia University will host a Sept. 11 community service forum featuring John McCain and Barack Obama.

Published by Crain's New York Business on September 4, 2008.

Prosecutors said Parks was walking home in Harlem just before midnight when four males aged 15 to 22 attacked him.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 3, 2008.

Parks, a jujitsu-trained New York City subway worker, fought back during an attempted mugging and has been indicted on a murder charge on accusations of fatally stabbing Byas. Parks had just finished his late-night shift on Jan. 10 and was walking home to his Harlem apartment when a group of men intending to rob him attacked him from behind.

Published by WNBC on September 3, 2008.

The outer boroughs and dynamic Manhattan neighborhoods such as Harlem generated most of the city’s job growth, while the typical business center of lower Manhattan experienced severe losses.

Published by Crain's New York Business on September 3, 2008.

Enraged and seeking vengeance after being mugged, a city subway conductor chased and fatally stabbed an innocent passerby on a Harlem street, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Published by New York Daily News on September 3, 2008.

Maurice Parks pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in the Jan. 10 death of 28-year-old Flonarza Byas in Harlem.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 3, 2008.

Other parts of the city are taking up the slack by creating new jobs. Zip code 10027, which includes Morningside Heights and West Harlem, showed a 187% gain in jobs during the decade, and two other Harlem neighborhoods reported a doubling.

Published by Crain's New York Business on September 3, 2008.

A van jammed with 13 relatives driving from a party in Pennsylvania flipped on a highway, killing a married couple from Harlem and their 2-year-old cousin, officials said Tuesday.

Published by New York Daily News on September 3, 2008.

The 10027 zip code, located in West Harlem/Morningside Heights and covering a chunk of Columbia University, led all city zip codes in the number of new jobs, adding 21,987.

Published by The New York Observer on September 3, 2008.

On Tuesday, the Empire State Development Corporation held its first public hearing on its outline for Columbia's 17-acre expansion into West Harlem.

Published by The New York Observer on September 3, 2008.

Kelly Reynolds, 14, who recently underwent back surgery for her scoliosis condition, was denied her first-choice high school and sent to one far from her upper West Side home.

Published by New York Daily News on September 3, 2008.

But it is backed by top City Hall and Education Department officials, for whom persuading Albany to extend mayoral control is the No. 1 goal for the school year that starts on Tuesday.

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

To name a few where developers have said they are trying for rezoning and other approvals before Michael Bloomberg leaves: the $15 billion West Side rail yards project; the planned redo of South Street Seaport; and a proposed development of up to 2,500 apartments at Riverside South on the Upper West Side.

Published by The New York Observer on September 2, 2008.

Underlying the book’s themes is the rapid growth in the area’s Korean population. In 1960, there were just 400 Koreans, New York, “a significant proportion of them students at Columbia University,” Dr. Min writes. By 2000, that figure had risen to about 170,500 in the New York metropolitan region, including about 86,400 in New York City.

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

"It's totally unfactual and it will be proven," the Harlem lawmaker said of a Post report revealing that his financial-disclosure forms showed no income in 2006 and 2007 from a villa he owns at the Punta Cana hotel resort in the Dominican Republic.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

A group of three men attacked Parks on Jan. 11 in Harlem.

Published by New York Post on August 30, 2008.

Belvey Ross, 27, of Harlem, teaches in The Bronx and said she likes "that he talked about getting money for early education and paying teachers more."

Published by New York Post on August 29, 2008.

Last month, Representative Charles B. Rangel hotly defended his four rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem. Next week, Bianca Jagger will be fighting to keep the one she has — or had — at 530 Park Avenue.

Published by New York Times on August 28, 2008.

Columbia’s attempt to build a new gymnasium in Harlem’s Morningside Park that would have a “segregationist” separate entrance for Harlem’s mostly black residents, coupled with the revelation that the university was conducting military research for the U.S. Department of Defense at the time of a war deemed “illegitimate” by many, led to student protests that closed the university for five violent days that spring.

Published by Riverdale Press on August 28, 2008.

The City Planning Commission voted in favor of rezoning the eastern portion of 125th Street, setting the stage for a final City Council vote on the 1.7 million-square-foot mixed-use complex.

Published by New York Sun on August 28, 2008.

New York City police are trying to determine who shot a man in East Harlem.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 28, 2008.

Tovah P. Klein, director of the Barnard Center for Toddler Development, said that even if the tests were not intended to have real consequences, they would.

Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

The Coffee Cup: Amsterdam Ave., west side, between 110th and 111th Sts.

Published by Derivative Works on August 27, 2008.

The New York City Planning Commission voted on Wednesday to rezone the eastern portion of 125th Street, helping to pave the way for a 1.7 million- square-foot, mixed-use complex.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 27, 2008.

The recent disclosure that the owners of Riverton Houses, a 1,228-unit apartment complex in Harlem, might default on their loan has shocked the real estate industry.

Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

The accident happened at 122nd and Broadway.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 27, 2008.

Virginia Pepe, the principal of Public School 163, Alfred E. Smith, on the Upper West Side, said she would send someone to learn more about the testing at a coming information session.

Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

(Note: The 2008 numbers include Harlem; the 2007 data does not. Harlem rents are lower than the rest of Manhattan’s, and The Observer found that leaving in the lower rents increases the difference in ’07 and ’08 rents by approximately 3 percentage points across the board.)

Published by The New York Observer on August 26, 2008.

The driver, Walter Walker of 106 West 109th Street, has told investigators that his brakes failed, police say. He has been charged with criminally negligent homicide and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

On the second-to-last Sunday in August, an open house for a four-bedroom, $11,000-a-month apartment in Chelsea was canceled and two Upper West Side open houses, also for rentals, were largely empty, barring the presence of nervous brokers.

Published by The New York Observer on August 26, 2008.

The death of a Harlem woman due to testify in two criminal cases has been ruled an accident, authorities said Monday.

Published by amNY.com on August 25, 2008.

Two New Jersey women were hit with flying bullet fragments Sunday during an afternoon gun battle on a Harlem street, police said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 25, 2008.

Gloria McKenzie maneuvered down the pathway with a cane, surveying the 700-foot-long grassy mall that is surrounded by five of the seven apartment buildings that make up Riverton, the storied Harlem housing complex.

Published by New York Times on August 25, 2008.

Rep. Charles Rangel warned a Harlem developer to protect low-income housing, saying "a disease of greed ... is taking over the city."

Published by New York Daily News on August 24, 2008.

One case: On Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side, a woman left her pedigreed Maltese, Mao, in her car as she stepped away to get something to eat. When she returned, the window was smashed and the dog was gone. Rescue Ink put up fliers and checked the street’s video cameras.

Published by New York Times on August 23, 2008.

The city is being sued by five Harlem men who were convicted of the attack as teenagers and spent years in prison before someone else confessed to the crime.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 23, 2008.

The city is being sued by five Harlem men who were convicted of the attack as teenagers and spent years in prison before someone else confessed to the crime.

Published by SI Live on August 23, 2008.

Columbia University seismologists have uncovered a pattern of subtle but active faults that they say could spawn a cataclysmic quake right here.

Published by New York Daily News on August 22, 2008.

Columbia University shares its eighth-place title with Duke and the University of Chicago on U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of the best colleges and universities. [Gothamist]

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Observatory also detected a line of seismic activity stretching from Stamford, Conn., to Peekskill and coming within two miles of the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 22, 2008.

The New York City Department of City Planning is slated to vote on Wednesday on whether to rezone the eastern portion of 125th Street, which would help the pave the way for the construction of a proposed 1.7 million square foot, mixed-use complex.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 22, 2008.

In 2005, the NYCLU counted more than 4,000 street level cameras from the West Village down to Battery Park. The group also found that the 292 cameras along 125th Street in Central Harlem recorded nearly every movement on that busy street.

Published by amNY.com on August 22, 2008.

“Of course Paterson thinks it’s a good idea. If he’s term-limited out, Bloomberg is running for governor and it’s back home to Harlem for the accidental gov.”

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

Mr. Brin, whose formal title is co-founder and president of technology, joked that New York’s offices started out in 2000 from the Upper West Side apartment of Tim Armstrong, now president of North American sales and commerce.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

She had been burned over 60% of her body in a ferocious gas explosion that ripped through her Harlem apartment building, killing her mother.

Published by New York Daily News on August 21, 2008.

The couple waited two hours on line Wednesday at an upper West Side pantry for groceries. Natasha, who is seven-months pregnant, said between sobs, "The governor should speak to people who go through this."

Published by New York Daily News on August 21, 2008.