Harlem

Community members held a rally in Harlem on Sunday following the troubling death of a 10-year-old boy the day before. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Two family members were questioned by New York City police late Saturday evening in connection to the death of a 10-year-old boy, law enforcement sources said. Police had made no arrests Saturday night, hours after the boy was found unconscious and unresponsive at the St. Nicholas Houses in Harlem on W 131st Street. Arriving officers found the boy around 2…

A 10-year-old boy found unresponsive inside a public housing building in Harlem on Saturday was later pronounced dead at a hospital. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

Meteorologists Matt Brickman from NBC 4 New York and Andrea Romero from Telemundo 47 joined students at PS 513 Castle Bridge School in Harlem for a virtual weather lesson where students learned about winter weather science and the differences between weather and climate.

New York City police will stay out of many mental health crisis calls and social workers will respond instead in parts of northern Manhattan starting this spring, an official told lawmakers Monday. The test program will begin in three Harlem and East Harlem police precincts that together accounted for a highest-in-the-city total of over 7,400 mental health-related 911 calls last…

For one New York City creative, a massive art collection started as a random act of kindness, helping a close friend in a desperate situation

One New York City artist is supporting struggling peers during the COVID pandemic by purchasing over $70,000 worth of art nationwide.

Bill and Hillary Clinton, actor-director Tyler Perry and singer Valerie Simpson of Ashford & Simpson are among those who attended a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson

People traveled across the country and stood in a block-long line to pay respects to Cicely Tyson at a public viewing Monday.

People wishing to pay their final respects to legendary actor Cicely Tyson will get a chance during a public viewing at a famed Manhattan church. The viewing for the actor, who died at age 96, will be held on Monday, Feb. 15, at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, according to a statement by her family through her manager Larry Thompson. The…

An underground gas main fire left flames shooting up from a Harlem street Friday afternoon, triggering evacuations in nearby buildings while leaving others without heat or hot water, officials said. The fire was first reported around 1:30 p.m., with nearby residents saying they heard a loud noise near the corner of West 114th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, FDNY…

The underground fire raged for about four hours, forcing some to have to leave their homes. No injuries were reported. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A long unseen Harlem musical festival with performances by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder and Sly and the Family Stone has finally seen the light of day

Twenty-one firefighters have been taken to hospitals after a blaze tore through a Harlem apartment building Saturday, the fire department said. None of the injuries is considered life-threatening, and all the patients are in stable condition, the department said. Firefighters were called around 7 a.m. to a building on West 115th Street and found the blaze on the first floor….

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96. Pat Battle reports.

A woman who was found dead inside her New York City apartment was allegedly shot by her own son following a conversation about him needing to get a job, according to family members. The NYPD confirmed 22-year-old Musa Camara fatally shot Fatoumata Danson in the head in her 15th-floor apartment at Lehman Village Houses. Camara was arrested Tuesday, just half…

A 22-year-old has been accused of killing his own mother after an argument over whether to get a job. Gaby Acevedo reports.

The trio proceeded to kick the woman repeatedly; one bit her on the forehead, breaking the skin and leaving her with a bite mark on her face that required stitches — but her emotional wounds are still raw

A group of men swarmed, then attacked a mother as she left a store in Harlem. NBC New York’s Marc Sanita spoke to the victim about her traumatic attack. .

Police are looking for three unidentified men they say got into an argument with a 31-year-old woman at a Manhattan liquor store, beat her up when she left and bit her on the forehead before stealing her $750 iPhone, authorities say. The woman was in the liquor store on West 128th Street in Harlem shortly before 6 p.m. Monday when…