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.

Armed with just $5 to quiet my belly's rumblings, I walked into Patsy's on Tuesday looking for a slice. Instead, I waddled out of the legendary East Harlem pizzeria dazed and overstuffed.

Published by New York Daily News on August 20, 2008.

Powell Middle School for Law and Social Justice, 509 West 129th Street

Published by NY1 on August 20, 2008.

LOCATION: Aaron Davis Hall, 150 Convent Ave at W 135th St

Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.

LOCATION: The Nave in Riverside Church at 490 Riverside Drive at 120th street

Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.

Hurry to Patsy's Restaurant in East Harlem as it celebrates its 75th anniversary with 1933 prices.

Published by New York Daily News on August 19, 2008.

Hurry to Patsy's Restaurant in East Harlem as it celebrates its 75th anniversary with 1933 prices.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 19, 2008.

Anti-feminist lawyer Roy Den Hollander sued Columbia University Monday, accusing it of turning feminism into the school's religion - and teaching that men are "the primary cause for most, if not all, the world's ills."

Published by New York Daily News on August 19, 2008.

LOCATION: The Riverside Church, 90 Claremont Street, Room 10T

Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.

Patsy's Restaurant In East Harlem Selling 12-Ounce New York Cut Steak For 90 Cents, Pizza For 60 Cents

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 19, 2008.

A gas explosion tore through the family's apartment in Harlem in October, killing Duaa's mother, Alouf Hassan, 29. Duaa's 3-year-old sister Lina was blinded; Twka, 5, and Afaf, 1, were both hospitalized.

Published by New York Daily News on August 19, 2008.

A machete-wielding man made good on a threat to get back at his ex-girlfriend when he ambushed and viciously hacked her to death in Harlem, relatives and cops said Sunday.

Published by New York Daily News on August 18, 2008.

Police have charged a Bronx man with a machete attack that killed his ex-girlfriend.Maribel Esutate, 37, was near her Harlem home on Saturday night when she was fatally attacked -- including stab wounds to the neck.Police arrested her ex-boyfriend, charging him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

Published by WNBC on August 18, 2008.

A fire sparked by a natural gas explosion killed a woman and severely burned her four young children in Harlem last October. Now, the eldest of the kids, a 6-year-old girl, is finally getting out of the hospital.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 18, 2008.

In a sign that even New York’s healthy residential market isn’t immune from the nation’s housing woes, the owners of the rent-stabilized Riverton Houses in Harlem say they expect to default on their $225 million mortgage next month,

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 15, 2008.

In his teens, he began haunting Harlem's jazz clubs and record stores, developing a life-long passion for jazz and blues.

Published by WNBC on August 15, 2008.

A Harlem pastor and retired police officer said Thursday that he was sexually abused as a teenager by Monsignor Wallace A. Harris, the prominent and popular priest who was suspended indefinitely by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York two weeks ago on the basis of similar complaints by two other men.

Published by WNBC on August 15, 2008.

A retired city cop bared his private pain Thursday, claiming he was molested by a popular Harlem priest who was recently bounced from the pulpit amid charges he fondled children for decades.

Published by New York Daily News on August 15, 2008.

The junior welterweight contender known in his Manhattan neighborhood as "The Pride of Spanish Harlem" told a newspaper that he was not involved in a cocaine trafficking ring.

Published by WNBC on August 15, 2008.

The recent rezoning of 125th Street in Harlem encountered similar resistance, but key opponents, mainly Councilwoman Inez E. Dickens, were won over after several modifications.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

Part V: The Harlem Honeys & Bears: New York City youth swimming demonstrations

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 14, 2008.

If you have favorite places to go in Harlem that you want to share with your fellow uptowners, submit them to uptownflavor@gmail.com. Include a photo and a little byline and you too can be featured on the site. You don’t have to limit your list to the categories below. Tell us about your favorite Chinese restaurant, wine store, bodega, or laundromat. Tell us about your uptown flavor.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 14, 2008.

An outbreak of smart cars in Harlem? [NYC the Blog]

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

It was a symbolic moment. Mr. Goldberg, who recently (according to his Facebook page) earned a graduate degree from Columbia University, a model young Democrat, reaching out to a club that has long struggled to bring in younger members.

Published by Riverdale Press on August 14, 2008.

Ms. Menken is a graduate of the city’s public education system, making her way through Washington Heights schools, George Washington High School and finally City College for both undergraduate and graduate studies.

Published by Riverdale Press on August 14, 2008.

A free outdoor cultural arts, entertainment, and dance festival honoring the grand village of Harlem!

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 13, 2008.

Dance to the sounds of some of the hottest audio masters in New York, connect with others during guided tours or shop ‘til you drop in the Museum’s newly restocked store. Bring a friend and have a cocktail and conversation. But—whatever you do—don’t miss these fun and festive evenings of culture in Harlem!

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 13, 2008.

Congressman Charles B. Rangel announced the news, but refused to discuss the scandal over his use of multiple rent-stabilized apartments in a nearby Harlem building.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

A double-exposure image juxtaposing pedestrians and a paddler on the Harlem River, both in Inwood.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

Representative Charles B. Rangel refused to discuss the scandal over his use of multiple rent-stabilized apartments in a nearby Harlem building.

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

Lincoln A. Mitchell is the Arnold A. Saltzman assistant professor in the practice of international politics at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and author of the upcoming book "Uncertain Democracy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia's Rose Revolution."

Published by New York Daily News on August 13, 2008.

All Harlem Meer Social Hour programs take place on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm at the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, located in the northern end of Central Park on 110th Street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 12, 2008.

Borinquen Vive en El Barrio (Borinquen Lives in El Barrio) is a portrait of a Puerto Rican family in East Harlem forced to reexamine the past, present, and future of their home island when an unexpected visitor challenges their cultural identity.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 12, 2008.

But that doesn't solve the problems of Georgia, whose President Mikhail Saakashvili is a lawyer educated at New York's Columbia University. Baghataria says that despite Russia ordering a halt to the war, friends and relatives reported that bombs were still going off Tuesday.

Published by amNY.com on August 12, 2008.

As arts education programs continue to lose funding in schools, Arts to Grow, a non-profit organization that offers free art classes to low-income youth, uses the arts and artistic expression as tools to empower and educate. For the last four weeks, Arts to Grow has provided free summer art classes to children at Harlem RBI, a youth development organization in East Harlem.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 12, 2008.

For example, Wachovia just signed a lease on a space at 124th St. and Third Ave., and Consolo's working on another deal with Chase in East Harlem.

Published by New York Daily News on August 11, 2008.

Guy, a Harlem Writers Guild co-founder, who was born in Trinidad and immigrated to Harlem with her parents, received special recognition at the event held at the famed Minton’s Playhouse on W. 118th St.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 11, 2008.

The City is working to revise building height limits in the controversial 125th Street Rezoning. The proposal seeks to reduce heights permitted along the commercial corridor from the 290′ permitted in certain areas in the recent rezoning down to 195′.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 11, 2008.

There are also studies underway for a ‘contextual’ rezoning of the areas of West Harlem left out of the Manhattanville and 125th Street rezonings. These are likely to ‘downzone’ areas of historic and intact built character to provide for height limits while providing opportunity for new development along transit corridors and wide streets and/or large underutilized/vacant sites.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 11, 2008.

The poll also finds 54% of New Yorkers believe the Harlem Democrat has the leadership ability needed to solve the state's budget problems.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 7, 2008.

"People in other parts of the city don't have specific privileges," said Michael Dansbury of Crown Heights. "Why here as opposed to elsewhere? Why here as opposed to Harlem?"

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 7, 2008.

Dubbed New York's "Academic Acropolis" because of the many schools that call the area home, Morningside Heights boasts a vibrancy and diversity infused with the spirit of higher education.

Published by amNY.com on August 7, 2008.

By Wednesday, all six teens were in Harlem, where they were lining up after getting a tip about another exclusive sneaker that Velez called “a beaut!”

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 7, 2008.

Interesting, for a Democrat legislator who represented Harlem for more than 20 years.

Published by The New York Observer on August 6, 2008.

And the City Council has been asleep on educational oversight ever since Eva Moskowitz left to start charter schools in Harlem (which will not have nearly enough space to meet demands). For example, do we know how many students under the Klein-Bloomberg regime actually get a diploma in four (or more) years, and how many drop out before then?

Published by Village Voice on August 5, 2008.

It may not be the most heavily attended church in the area, but the imposing Roman Catholic church on 141st Street, St. Charles Borromeo, known locally as Harlem’s Cathedral, has become known in recent years for such stirring triumphs and humbling lows that some people see it as a kind of tragic, if not bipolar, character residing in the neighborhood.

Published by New York Times on August 5, 2008.

They say he attacked a 25-year-old woman in East Harlem early Saturday morning.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 5, 2008.

And Harlem high school senior Luis Rosario added, "Now, instead of buying whatever kind of sneakers I would think about it twice and put the money in the bank."

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

A highly respected Harlem priest is on administrative leave after two adults stepped forward in recent weeks to say they were sexually abused by him in the late 1980s.

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

The Archdiocese of New York says a Harlem pastor has stepped aside after being accused of sexually abusing a minor.

Published by amNY.com on August 4, 2008.