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Local groups team up for green construction job training

Community Board 9 is working with the Horticultural Society of New York and STRIVE to give Harlem residents free green construction training and opportunities for jobs in the field.

By Gina Lee | Feb 15 12:50 am ET

Contest to bring new designs to vacant space on Hudson

West Harlem residents are hoping that a design competition will help bring new life to an abandoned pier structure at 135th Street.

By Jillian Kumagai | Oct 6 03:31 am ET

Morgan-Thomas seeks cooperation at CB9

Georgiette Morgan-Thomas, minister and Harlem services director, has been in charge at CB9 since July and is seen as an experienced neighborhood voice.

By Abby Mitchell | Sep 27 02:08 am ET

Activist and CB9 chair clash at M’ville panel discussion

A Fordham event brought CB9 chair Larry English, CPC activist Tom DeMott, professor Peter Marcuse and Floridita owner Ramon Diaz together on Wednesday.

By Finn Vigeland | Mar 31 03:53 am ET

Harlem residents want art, retail in former Citarella

The city is considering proposals for the former Taystee Bakery site, which includes the building one that contained Citarella on 125th and 126th streets.

By Constance Boozer | Feb 23 02:55 am ET

Politicians revive protest over GSAPP’s new space

Community Board 9 and Daniel O’Donnell want the University to lease the School of Social Work's ground-floor space to a retail tenant, even though the space is becoming a center for the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

By Abby Mitchell | Feb 21 03:16 am ET

Residents discuss improving education in Harlem

Harlem residents discussed the best ways to advance their local education system on Monday night.

By Lillian Jin | Oct 26 03:02 am ET

Practical, not partisan, community organizing

The obscurity of local community boards is symptomatic of the partisanship and obstructionism that has taken over pragmatic community organizing.

By Daniel Amzallag | Apr 26 06:58 pm ET

Census organizers say too early to judge low return

As of Thursday evening, the response rate in West Harlem ranges from 9 to 19 percent, with New York County on the whole at 19 percent. Nationally, the average is 29 percent.

By Sarah Darville | Mar 26 03:40 am ET

Harlem politicians, civic groups seek better participation in 2010 census

With just a 40 percent participation rate, Harlem has been among the lowest-counted communities in North America. As the March 2010 census approaches, some claim that this is about to change.

By Kim Kirschenbaum | Feb 26 04:46 am ET

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