Please join WE ACT and the West Harlem Community Preservation Organization and co-sponsors for a virtual Candidate Forum on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at 11:00 am. We will welcome all six candidates in the race for Manhattan Borough President. Peggy Shepperd, Executive Director of WE ACT, will moderate. The candidates will present their platform and
Last night the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate passed a $2.3 trillion combined bill that includes the $900 billion Coronavirus economic relief bill and a $1.4 trillion Omnibus FY21 spending bill to keep the government running through September. The full text of this enormous bill is 5,593 pages! The bill now heads to the President’s desk to sign into law. This economic relief is long
The Community Board 9 Manhattan is hosting a community conversation on large-scale development projects proposed for Hamilton Heights. The Hamilton Heights area is bounded by 125th to 155th, north to south, and Riverside to Edgecombe, more or less, east to west, and consists primarily of turn-of-the-century rowhouses and apartment buildings. There are two historic districts
A developer filed permits with the city on Tuesday to construct a 28-story apartment tower on a vacant lot in Hamilton Heights, records show. The permits call for a 285-foot-tall building at 620 West 153rd St., a midblock site between Broadway and Riverside Drive. It would include 238 apartments with an average size of about