Harlem

A 7-year-old boy is lucky to be alive — and with only minor injuries — after he fell from a 12th-floor balcony at a high-rise building in East Harlem Friday, authorities say. It wasn’t clear how the boy fell, but he landed on a balcony on the ninth floor of the East 131st Street building between Park Avenue and Lexington…

Four people were hospitalized early Sunday morning after a gunman opened fire in front of a popular Harlem bar, police and fire officials said. At least three of those injured were said to be gathered outside the bar around closing time when the brazen gunman stood in the street and opened fire on the group, according to police sources. A…

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Concerns about racial profiling in Harlem after a city councilman was pulled over by police in his district. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports.

Adams joins nearly a dozen city council members for a NYPD ride-along Saturday, one day after a traffic stop involving Yusef Salaam. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

Councilmember Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated “Central Park Five” now serving as Public Safety Chair on the New York City Council, said he was stopped Friday night by members of the NYPD. “Last night, while driving with my wife and children and listening in to a call with my Council colleagues on speakerphone, I was pulled over by…

Adams rejected the bill, known as the “ How Many Stops Act,” which requires officers to publicly report on all investigative stops, including relatively low-level encounters with civilians.

Two men died and two other people were hurt after a fire broke out in a brownstone in Harlem, the FDNY said Saturday morning. Video of the deadly blaze showed flames shooting from the window of a second-floor apartment in the four-story building on West 132nd Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Malcolm X boulevards. Officials with the FDNY…

Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam is poised to win a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, marking a stunning reversal of fortune for a political newcomer who was wrongly imprisoned as a teenager in the infamous rape case.

You don’t have to walk into a gallery to see Marieke Bauer’s artwork on display. These days, Bauer (whose pronouns are they/them), has a lot more fun wearing it. For nearly two years, the logistics coordinator and NYU grad has taken up “hair painting” as their newest form of expression that consists of bleach, brushes, and ready-made hair dye...

East Harlem artist Marieke Bauer details their hair painting process. NBC New York’s Kay Angrum reports.

The Riverside Hawks, founded by the Harlem Riverside Church, emphasizes academics, basketball and community to it’s youth members. Erica Byfield reports.

The man who allegedly beat a woman with her own cane has been arrested. Rana Novini reports.

The man who was seen on video beating a woman with her own cane in a brutal attack at a Harlem subway station was arrested, according to police sources.

A 60-year-old woman is recovering after a man used her own cane as a weapon to beat her with it. Rana Novini reports.

A woman was brutally beaten with her own cane inside a Manhattan subway station, police said, and the shocking attack was captured on video. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

A woman was brutally beaten with her own cane inside a Manhattan subway station, police said, and the shocking attack was captured on video.

Police are searching for an individual they say punched a 70-year-old man who was exiting a subway station in Harlem on Wednesday. According to the NYPD, at around 7:15 p.m., an unknown individual approached the 70-year-old man while he was trying to exit the southbound C train at the corner of Saint Nicholas Avenue and 145th Street. The individual allegedly…

60 years ago The March on Washington reshaped the landscape of the Civil Rights Movement and many people don’t know it started in Harlem. Marc Santia reports.

The long awaited Harlem Festival of Culture is cancelled due to the excessive heat warnings in the city. Jessica Cunnington reporting