Harlem

SEED Harlem has 40 students and Urban Assembly Global Commerce 112. Both would close in June. Hearings start Dec. 1 and the Panel for Educational Policy votes Dec. 16.

The governor carried New York City with 76% and every borough but Staten Island. Blakeman conceded on election night. Below: how both campaigns spent the final day.

The Neighborhood Navigators, run by the nonprofit The Bridge, hire people who have lived through homelessness. More than 175 people have been housed since 2024, and City Hall added $1.25 million this year.

The North End Recirculation Project will link the Harlem Meer, the Loch and the Pool so the park can hold back stormwater before big storms and stop topping up its lakes with city tap water. It is due in fall 2028.

City Hall and distributor NEON are showing the Harlem Renaissance documentary for free at 1 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Seats go first come, first served, even with an RSVP.

Researchers found emergency room visits fell in the first ZIP codes where the city guaranteed tenants a lawyer in Housing Court, though not citywide. Visits tied to mental health and substance use rose.

Each area gets $1.6 million from money already in the city budget for 42 new outreach jobs, including 30 'credible messengers' who mediate disputes before they turn into shootings. Northern Manhattan gets a street-outreach team for the first time.

Mayor Mamdani and Gov. Hochul named the 17 new school districts that will share 10,000 more free seats for 2-year-olds in fall 2027. Application dates are still to come.

The 1904 West Harlem stop that serves City College now has an elevator to each platform, plus accessible platforms, tactile edge strips and new fare arrays. The MTA warns federal money for the next upgrades is in doubt.

DSS is putting about $500,000 into dog and cat food at Community Food Connection sites as shelter surrenders rise with living costs.

After a pilot the MTA says cut fare evasion by 35%, every fare array will be replaced at stations including 14 St-Union Sq, 161 St-Yankee Stadium and Flushing-Main St. Prep work starts this month.

The agency wants to know whether tunnel-boring machines already digging Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 should keep going west under 125th Street.