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Jean “A Great Day in Harlem” Bach Passes

Posted on May 30, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Jean Bach with her friend Bobby Short.

The music world lost a great champion over Memorial Day. She was Jean Bach, was in her 90s who reigned over the jazz and music world from her adorable Washington Square Mews house. Continue reading →

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Visiting Student Dies At Columbia University (update)

Posted on March 31, 2013 by | 2 Comments

YNONYNEHWMUGETR.20091022160035Jessica Fingers, 21-year-old Columbia freshman runner was found dead in a dorm hallway at Columbia University Sunday morning about 11:45 a.m., authorities said. Continue reading →

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HW Pick: RIP Ed Koch

Posted on February 3, 2013 by | Leave a comment

image“How’m I doing?” Even if you didn’t grow up in New York in the late ’70s and ’80s, you’d probably recognize Ed Koch’s mayoral mantra—on TV talk shows, hosting Saturday Night Live, on book tours for his best-selling memoir, Mayor. Continue reading →

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RIP: Chris Lighty Talks About The Business…(video)

Posted on August 30, 2012 by | 2 Comments

 

It’s around 5 pm. The LOF boys and myself are waiting in the Violator conference room. Jokes are flying and the anticipation is building. Continue reading →

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Steven Carter Gets 26 Years After Cold Case

Posted on July 31, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The cops got their man, 26 years later. Violent career felon Steven Carter was hit with the maximum 25-years-to-life sentence Monday for strangling a woman in Harlem’s St. Nicholas Park — in 1986. Continue reading →

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Sylvia Woods Funeral Arrangements

Posted on July 20, 2012 by | 2 Comments

The Woods Family have finalized funeral arrangements are as follows: Continue reading →

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Sylvia Woods, ‘Queen of Soul Food,’ Passes

Posted on July 19, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Sylvia Woods, the matriarch of the famed Harlem restaurant that bore her name and a New York City icon, died Thursday at her Westchester home, family members said in a statement. Continue reading →

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