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Rainwater left untreated in cooling towers atop city-owned Harlem Hospital fueled the Big Apple’s deadliest Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in a decade, the Rev. Al Sharpton charged Tuesday.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and civil rights advocate Rev. Al Sharpton are planning a press conference Tuesday, Aug. 19, to announce a lawsuit against a construction company accused of starting the deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Harlem, targeting Black and brown residents, BLACK ENTERPRISE has confirmed.
A 51-year-old Queens man was stabbed multiple times in a brutal midday attack on a Harlem street Friday, collapsing outside an apartment building before being rushed to the hospital where he later died.
The transit agency inked a nearly $2 billion contract on Monday to begin major construction work on a subway line that's been floated for a century.
Cops received a 911 call for an assault in progress on W. 128th St. near Frederick Douglass Blvd. Responding officers found the victim with multiple stab wounds throughout his body.
Williams is known for developing and co-founding Harlem Week, which he, along with friend Voza Rivers, former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton and numerous others, grew from a one-day event in 1974 to the major celebration of arts, culture and community joy that is currently running through Aug. 17.
The model's arrest took place hours after he called 911 to report that he found his estranged husband, Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34, dead in his Harlem apartment around 4 a.m. on July 31, NBC New York reported. Responding officers located Jacob's body in the bathroom, slumped over the toilet.
A accident on Appling Harlem Road near North Fairview Drive left one woman dead and another driver facing serious charges.
Studio 13 Live got a preview of "After Midnight" at 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. Catch the last performances through Aug. 24.