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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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

Published by New York Post on August 30, 2008.

Although the committee billed the concert as “collaboration” with the college’s Center for the Arts and Culture, the center’s director said he only rented them the theater (lest Hostos be accused of embracing violent criminals, as when a City College student group named a center in honor of two American radicals living in Havana).

Published by New York Times on August 29, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 accident happened at 122nd and Broadway.

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

The attack happened around 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, and the woman escaped at the 116th Street stop. The victim did not exit the train until he reached the Times Square stop at 42nd Street, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters.

Published by New York Sun 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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yesterday, the family of one of the nation's most revered composers donated $1 million to keep the music alive at Marcus Garvey Park, which abuts the home in which he grew up, at 3 W. 120th St.

Published by New York Post 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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Almost 40 years ago, famed composer Richard Rogers donated money to build a bandshell in Marcus Garvey Park because he grew up just a few blocks away.

Published by WNBC on August 21, 2008.

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

Published by NY1 on August 20, 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.

LOCATION: 151 West 122nd Street, Manhattan Avenue

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 ABC News (Channel 7) 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.

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.

A Manhattan lawyer is charging in a federal lawsuit that Columbia University, by offering courses in women's studies, is discriminating against men.

Published by New York Sun 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.

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

Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.