New York students up and running

NEW YORK (AP) — Khalil Colon was sweaty but smiling after 25 jumping jacks and 20 laps around the school gym. A year ago, the 9-year-old said, running made him feel “like I’m about to drop on the middle of the floor.” [...]

Hillary’s Homecoming in Harlem

Campaign Countdown: 100 Days ’til Victory in New York
Hillary’s Homecoming
Saturday, October 27, 2007
11:00 AM
West 125th Street & Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard
(Seventh Avenue – Adjacent to State Office Building Campus – Harlem, NY )
Please Join Senator Hillary Clinton, Chairman Charles Rangel
NY Congressional Delegation Members
Gary Ackerman, Yvette Clark, Joseph Crowley, Eliot Engel, Carolyn Maloney, Gregory Meeks,
Jerrold [...]

Festival of Puerto Rican Music @MCNY

Saturday • November 3 • 2:00 PM
Rafael Hernandez-Sylvia Rexach Festival of Puerto Rican Music
This annual festival celebrates works by Puerto Rican composer Sylvia Rexach (above), with singer Carmen D. Lucca and a premiere performance of music and dance by Carmen Jimenez. Featuring Eric Plakx on piano, Fredie Dionisio on vocals and piano, and Ruben Isola [...]

Viva La Vida!

I am always hearing about the lack of quality food in Harlem. And today I was fortune enough find “Vida Saludable” This is not just another vitamin store, so don’t sleep. From organic cookies to bulk brown rice the owner, Ana Hernandez has got it covered. And if you are lucky, Ana might be cooking some fabulous organic vegetarian Dominican [...]

Health Department Launches Smoke-free Home Campaign In Harlem

NEW YORK CITY – October 19, 2007 – The Health Department today announced the launch of the Harlem Smoke-Free Home campaign to address the issue of secondhand smoke in East and Central Harlem. Children in Harlem are hospitalized for asthma at twice the rate of children citywide. According to a 2005 study, 32% of Central [...]

What’s Happenin’ Langston?

Find out from an insider at 68 Bradhurst, the new blog about The Langston. Tell ‘em U.F. sent you.
 Link: 68 Bradhurst

The Scoop: Get Carter!!!

Lincoln Center Gets Carter (NYSUN)
CB9 Discusses Manhattanville Expansion (ColumbiaSpectator)
Church Groups Protest Stereotyping of Blacks by Media (ColumbiaSpectator)
Man Suspected in String of Robberies (ColumbiaSpectator)
Harvard Business School Club Makes $1M Donation to Charities (NYSun)
Dispute on F.D.R. Drive Ends With a Killing in East Harlem (NYT)
Washington, Crowe Face Off In “Gangster” (NYT)
Absence Makes the Buyer Fonder (Studios are [...]