African Services Committee, a West Harlem-based nonprofit organization that assists migrants from across the African diaspora, held its second series of financial literacy workshops on March 7.

Eight restaurants in West Harlem participated in this winter’s New York City Restaurant Week, a semiannual program celebrating restaurants across the city and offering prix fixe dining at discounted prices.

Columbia Secondary School is hosting a fundraiser with Farm to People, an online farmers market delivery service, to support local farmers and makers in New York state.

As local shelter providers express growing concern over the strained capacity of the New York City shelter system, advocates for homeless youth continue to question the parameters of the city’s no-sleep directive.

After a summer of record-breaking heat, the first week of September brought another wave of sweltering temperatures to the neighborhoods of New York City. Although the effects of extreme heat were felt throughout Manhattan, the disproportionate impact in West Harlem has drawn scrutiny to the accessibility of a key resource: cooling centers.

The Community Board 9 Economic Development Committee will host a business awards ceremony in the coming months to celebrate family-run establishments that have been in operation for more than 50 years.

Columbia Student-Worker Solidarity organizers tied clusters of red balloons to the hands of Alma Mater on Thursday, gathering upwards of 50 protesters to rally against Columbia’s eviction of the University-affiliated Red Balloon Early Childhood Learning Center.

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development issued an order on Jan. 13 banning youth from sleeping in Runaway and Homeless Youth drop-in centers across the city. The Ali Forney Center, which is based in Central Harlem and focuses on serving homeless LGBTQ youth, is one of five centers affected by the new order. In the months following the directive, community advocates and Ali Forney Center administrators have spoken out against the no-sleep order.

Administrators at City College of New York proposed on Feb. 2 that the stretch of Convent Avenue from West 135th through West 140th Street be renamed after Colin Powell. The proposal was brought to a Community Board 9 general board meeting on Feb. 16, where the board voted to sign a letter of support for the renaming.