As the city’s annual participatory budgeting vote week begins, Upper Manhattan residents ages 11 and above have the opportunity to decide how $1 million of city funding will be used for local projects. Voting will take place from April 11 to 19, with projects in the neighborhood ranging from library upgrades to garden initiatives.

West Harlem residents gathered on the corner of 125th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Saturday to participate in the third nationwide “No Kings” protest against President Donald Trump’s administration.

Elected officials and political candidates, including those running in West Harlem, gathered outside Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Midtown office on Sunday to demand the passage of proposed state legislation that would prohibit state and local resources from being used for federal immigration enforcement.

More than 550 community gardens are registered under New York City Department of Parks and Recreation’s GreenThumb, the nation’s largest urban gardening program. The fruits of countless hours of labor by dedicated volunteers in over 15 of those gardens, were celebrated at the ninth annual GreenThumb Garden Awards on Friday at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

District 69 State Assembly member Micah Lasher, Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal, and other elected officials demanded the University release footage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting Ellie Aghayeva, GS ’26, at a press conference outside Columbia’s 116th Street and Broadway gates on Monday.