Residents of District 7, which covers Manhattanville, Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley, and Hamilton Heights, are joining New York City’s annual participatory budgeting process, through which community members can provide direct input on public spending. Community members throughout the city must submit their final votes by Friday for budget allocations.

“Ain’t I a Woman?!,” an organization led by immigrant, female home-care workers endeavoring to end unfair labor conditions, held a rally on Wednesday at City Hall to protest against labor practices that subject care workers to 24-hour shifts.

The West Harlem-based environmental organization WE ACT helped lead tens of thousands in a climate march on Sunday, which filled the streets of midtown Manhattan and kicked off Climate Week NYC 2023. The March to End Fossil Fuels was comprised of an estimated 75,000 participants, making it the largest climate demonstration since the start of the pandemic.

Resmaa Menakem, New York Times bestselling author of the 2017 book “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies”, visited the Harlem School of the Arts on Wednesday night to discuss his work regarding the concept of racialized trauma. A licensed clinical social worker, Menakem focused on working through trauma specifically with, as he described, “bodies of culture.”

The 32nd Annual Upper Broadway Spring Festival attracted large crowds on a warm Sunday afternoon.

The tenant advocacy group United Front Against Displacement published in February a press release regarding unlivable maintenance practices affecting residents of the New York City Housing Authority’s Manhattanville Houses. NYCHA, which oversees public housing throughout the city, has been pushing in recent years for privatization of similar housing developments—an aspect that some advocates say is driving NYCHA’s alleged neglect.

Delivery workers who utilize e-bikes are asking for more resources to be allocated toward safe battery use following a string of West Harlem fires linked to lithium-ion batteries.

Mental health advocacy organizations and disability justice coalitions in Harlem and across the city are opposing Mayor Eric Adams’ expansion of Kendra’s Law, which allows for the involuntary treatment of individuals with mental illnesses.

Nestled between a few of Harlem’s most historic sites lies St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on West 141st Street and Convent Avenue. The building has served numerous congregations over its 130 years in the neighborhood, but has sat empty since 2015. In June, the building was purchased by owners identified as 435 West 141 Millennium LLC looking to transform it into a school building for the West Harlem neighborhood.

Nestled between towering concrete buildings and winding grid-patterned streets, parks provide solace to New Yorkers beyond just bouts of shade and patches of grass. This reality rang true as communities began to rebuild through use of such outdoor spaces after the peak of the pandemic.