In the 20 years since its founding, Bill Torres, now-director of support services, has watched the Ali Forney Center transform from a “ragtag group of activists” in a Harlem church basement to the largest organization aiding homless LGBTQ youth in the nation.

Five New Yorkers with disabilities are currently suing the MTA for excluding more than 160,000 Access-A-Ride users from discounts including half fares for seniors and people with disabilities and 30-day and seven-day unlimited fares.

Twelve years after Harlem’s first official Pride celebration, service and advocacy groups continue to collaborate to bring housing and community programs to Harlem’s same-gender-loving and LGBTQ residents.

As New York City’s housing market becomes increasingly competitive, securing affordable housing is more difficult than ever. But for the more than 745,000 New Yorkers with conviction histories, the already daunting task is nearly impossible.

On the corner of 126th Street and Lenox Avenue, Harlem community leaders and residents gathered on Friday to chant, wave signs, and march in protest of the construction of a new Mount Sinai Hospital methadone clinic. The clinic, which stands on 125th Street, is the eighth such drug treatment facility within a five-block radius, and residents say it is proof that Harlem has become oversaturated with methadone clinics.