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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 13, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Published by The New York Observer on August 6, 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.

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.

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 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.

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 allegations of sexual abuse of a minor.

Published by WNBC on August 4, 2008.

They have read Spanish-language newspapers like New York City’s El Diario La Prensa and Spain’s El País, and the jokes that Mr. Cardozo’s friends send to him by e-mail. And the mayor has shared business tips with Mr. Cardozo, who, after several years of running his language school from his apartment in East Harlem, is renting an office in Midtown and will start offering group classes there next month.

Published by New York Times on August 4, 2008.

A longtime Harlem pastor who helped organize Pope Benedict XVI's visit to New York and gave the invocation at Gov. David Paterson's inauguration has stepped aside following allegations he sexually abused a minor.

Published by amNY.com 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.

Msgr. Wallace A. Harris, the pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Harlem, has been asked to step down by the Archdiocese of New York amid claims of sexual abuse of a minor.

Published by New York Times on August 4, 2008.

For nearly two decades, Monsignor Wallace Harris has faithfully served as pastor of the St. Charles Borromeo Church in Harlem.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 4, 2008.

A Harlem priest who just months ago was bestowed the highest honors of working with Pope Benedict and Gov. Paterson has fallen from grace.

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

Monsignor Wallace Harris, Pastor of Saint Charles Borromeo Parish in Harlem was forced to step down from his position as pastor after allegations of sexual abuse of a minor emerged Sunday.

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

The New York City police department is asking the public's assistance in identifying the young suspects wanted for a sting of robberies in and around Riverside Park.

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

The most recent strike was Wednesday, when police said 10 men assaulted a 28-year-old man in Riverside Park and stole his back pack.

Published by WNBC on August 2, 2008.

In setting out to renovate a Harlem brownstone and make it 'green,' a team from Good Housekeeping magazine stuffed the walls with denim for insulation.

Published by New York Daily News on August 2, 2008.

Outside his Harlem apartment, neighbors said Dunn was known for his odd behavior.

Published by New York Daily News on August 1, 2008.

Michels, a longtime resident of Castle Village on Cabrini Boulevard, was elected seven times to the Council, serving from 1978 until term limits ended his tenure in 2001. His district was modified by reapportionment to include parts of Central and West Harlem, but he carried the new areas as well as Washington Heights and Inwood, his traditional bases of support.

Published by The New York Observer on August 1, 2008.

Rangel, the chairman of the powerful tax-writing House Ways & Means Committee, has been under intense scrutiny in the past month for his use of four rent-stabilized apartments in a Harlem building.

Published by amNY.com on August 1, 2008.

The House of Representatives decided on Wednesday to table, by a vote of 254 to 138, a Republican resolution to censure Representative Charles B. Rangel, the powerful New York Democrat who is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, for “dishonoring himself and bringing discredit to the House” after The New York Times reported on July 11 that Mr. Rangel occupied four rent-stabilized apartments in a Harlem building, including one that he used as a campaign office.

Published by New York Times on July 31, 2008.

As part of an effort to increase the number of students — particularly girls — participating in competitive athletics, the city will create coed double-dutch teams at 10 high schools, many in predominantly black neighborhoods like Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem where the ropes have long swung on asphalt playgrounds.

Published by New York Times on July 31, 2008.

Case in point: A 200-year-old house in Harlem, where going green is costing a lot of green -- $4.5 million worth to be exact.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 31, 2008.

The last time Paterson sought elective office on his own, in his Harlem State Senate district, he won resoundingly. But his 80,000 votes that year — while three times more than Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver received in his Lower East Side district, about as many as Dean Skelos, the accidental Senate majority leader, received in his — constituted less than one half of 1 percent of the state’s population.

Published by New York Times on July 31, 2008.

Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has come under scrutiny over the past month for his use of four rent-stabilized apartments in a building in New York City's Harlem neighborhood.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 31, 2008.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting spree that injured six people in Harlem on Memorial Day, the police said.

Published by New York Times on July 30, 2008.

Talay is perhaps the only Manhattan destination I've been to that's most easily arrived at by car, its valet parking proving an alternative to wending down on foot through Riverside Park.

Published by New York Sun on July 30, 2008.

JACKIE ROBINSON W. 146th St. and Bradhurst Ave. BEST QUALITIES: This gem of a pool is shaded by majestic trees and sports a fabulous water play area with huge fountains that look like frogs and palm trees.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on July 30, 2008.

By the early 20th century, Catholic outreach to Hispanics had begun to improve a bit. Cardinal John M. Farley took part in a synod in Puerto Rico in 1917 and Catholic settlement houses for Hispanic immigrants began to emerge, including Casita Maria, in Harlem, which later moved to the Bronx.

Published by New York Times on July 30, 2008.