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Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death begins free performances throughout New York City July 25.

Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death begins free performances throughout New York City July 25.

New Yorkers are lucky to have one of the strongest public television stations in the country.

Sloppy construction sites, weak buildings and retaining walls will face more scrutiny from inspectors under a series of laws passed Wednesday in response to recent problems at building sites.

Tours for Families: The Best of New York City New York offers so many tours so make sure you pick the best for the whole family.

Rep. Charles Rangel isn't the only Harlem big shot with a sweetheart deal at the famed Lenox Terrace.

It's gonna be a hot one this weekend . Temperatures are expected to climb into the 90s every day.

Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife By Marie Winn Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 295 pages, $25 Ten years ago, Wall Street Journal reporter Marie Winn told the story of her enchantment with a ...

Just how hard is it to get on the ballot in New York? By the stroke of midnight on July 10, candidates for office in New York City had to submit literally hundreds of carefully documented signatures to get a ...

New Yorkers are getting soaked at the laundromat. Higher fuel and water prices mean the cost of a load of wash is spinning out of control for the city's cash-strapped residents.

Last summer I wrote a piece called "Why Harlem is Hot Hot Hot" which cataloged the significant demographic and psychographic changes taking place in Harlem and mapped out the many planned condo developments ...

A gourmet market and cafe slated to open in East Harlem next month is the first in a wave of new restaurants and stores expected to move into the neighborhood in the coming years, real estate experts said.

Officer Sean Sawyer will not be charged in the road rage shooting death of Jason Tirado.

July 10 -- Swing to the sounds of New York City Salsa with the thirteen-member all-star ensemble Spanish Harlem Orchestra at the free Twilight Dance Series concert on the Santa Monica Pier Thursday night.

Few have inspired as many educators as Herb Kohl. Over the past four decades, Kohl has been a teacher, principal, university teacher educator, social activist and author of more than forty books.

The house, a Suggs exclusive, is about to be listed at $3.875 million, up from the $380,000 it sold for just nine years ago.

"Magnificent" doesn't half describe the Gilded Age architecture at One Hanson Place, the Dermot Company 's 179-unit Fort Greene conversion of the former Williamsburg Savings Bank building.

Carolyn Harris-Park, River and Monument II. NEW YORK.- Lori Bookstein Fine Art hosts "Painting in the Park," a celebration of New York City's most valuable assets-its numerous parks-and the painters who have ...

Master mall builder Forest City Ratner and Blumenfeld Development Group have snagged another discount retailer for East River Plaza, the 485,000-square-foot suburban-style mall being developed in East Harlem ...

SUMMERTIME MUSIC: A large crowd gathered in Central Park to listen to the New York Philharmonic's first concert in its 44th Annual Summer Concert Series.