Tenants of 550 W. 125th St., a residential tower within the Grant Houses complex, were alerted this month that the building’s gas service—used primarily for cooking—would be shut off until further notice due to “unavoidable circumstances.” On Wednesday night, three weeks after the outage began, New York City Housing Authority officials, local politicians, and tenant leaders gathered in the building’s lobby to update residents on the outstanding outage.

Students in red T-shirts, holding red balloons, scattered themselves around the Columbia and Barnard campuses on Dec. 7. As students walked by Alma Mater, volunteers handed out pamphlets with “SAVE the Red Balloon Learning Center” written on them.

A decade after two West Harlem New York Police Department officers were convicted of official misconduct, all the cases in which they had a material role are being vacated after a yearlong investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney General’s office.

In response to gentrification in West Harlem, small businesses and homeowners have worked to protect landmark sites that preserve the character of the neighborhood.

For John Garcia, who rides the subway every day, stopping at the Central Park North–110th Street station is not a pleasant experience. He does not feel safe in the station, he said, because of drug activities, lack of cleanliness, and crime, among other concerns. Garcia is not alone. In fact, only 19 percent of New Yorkers are satisfied with their experience at Central Park North–110th Street, making it the lowest-rated station in the city.

A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at the Amsterdam Nursing Home, located at 1060 Amsterdam Avenue, has infected a total of eight people in the past month. Among the eight, five have died.

Dozens of protestors gathered on Low Steps Thursday evening to protest Columbia’s gentrification of Harlem.