Tag Archives: Robert Rodriguez

Metropolitan Hospital Community Advisory Board Legislative Forum With Harlem Rep. Rangel

rep rangle speaks at event

The Metropolitan Hospital Center Community Advisory Board (CAB) hosted local elected officials, their representatives, healthcare advocates, and community residents at its annual legislative forum on Friday, March 22. Continue reading

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Get Ready Harlem, Target’s Next Collaborations!

Why should Target limit its partnerships to just one high-fashion brand at a time when they can partner with 24 of them at once? Continue reading

Espaillat Hopes to Seize on Demographic Shifts in Rangel Challenge

Members of the Barack Obama Democratic Club packed into a room in Manhattan’s Church of the Intercession last week. The church, located on West 155 Street, is almost directly in-between the northern Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Harlem. It’s a perfect middle ground for a political club that draws its members from the diverse communities that call these neighborhoods home.

The club and the church are also located in the heart of the congressional district represented by Congressman Charles Rangel, who was first elected in 1971, during the Nixon administration. Continue reading

Time Warner Cable Learning Lab To Open in Harlem

Time Warner Cable and local dignitaries opened a Time Warner Cable Learning Lab yesterday at the James Weldon Johnson Community Center, 1839 Lexington Avenue, Between East 112th and 115th Streets in Harlem. Continue reading

Public Safety Community Forum For Residents of the 28th Precinct

The office of State Senator Bill Perkins announces a Public Safety Community Forum, focused on solutions to crime, issues of violence and quality of life concerns within the 28th Precinct..

Tuesday, October 4 * 6 PM

215 W. 114th Street * Wadleigh Secondary School Continue reading

What Can We Do About The Gun Shootings In Harlem

Please call your state assemblyman Robert Rodriguez at 212-828-3953 to voice your concern over the increased violence. He is planning on meeting with concerned parents in the neighborhood. Inez Dicken’s (city council member #9) 212-678-4505 is also collecting letters and signatures of concerned citizens to try to increase PAL hours and gang prevention activities. Check out harlem4kids for more information on how you can help!!

Follow the thread at HW’s Everyblock.

A Constant In E. Harlem Is Endangered

For 60 years, Claudio Caponigro’s hole-in-the-wall barbershop on East 116th Street has been an East Harlem landmark … Continue reading

Harlem’s Top Model, Sheena Satana

With Fashion Week here Harlem World spoke to Harlem’s Sheena Satana, who was on Cycle 11 of America’s Next Top Model. In true Harlem flavor, she was the contestant who was told to tone down her sex appeal and the one who always spoke her mind. We hung out with the singer, actress, celebrity hostess and Buddhist on a cool day in Morningside Park about fashion, Harlem food, the Asian Beyoncé, Huwarlem and the future. Continue reading