Demand high for Harlem Hotels, but no one’s taking advantage Fall is peak season in New York’s hotel industry, when tourists and traveling business pros fill vacant rooms from Battery Park to Central Park. In Harlem, hotel marketer Aquaria Harley, director of sales at Aloft – the neighborhood’s only conventional […]
East Harlem faces an uncertain future and so does the neighborhood’s support for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s still-developing plan to rezone it. The Mayor’s strategy is to rezone East Harlem and 15 other neighborhoods to pack in more dwellings while requiring developers to add more affordable housing units. This would […]
Harlem community advocate Nina DeMartini-Day has spent the bulk of her life fighting to improve the lives of the poor and underprivileged in the neighborhood despite critics who argue her reforms ultimately hurt those she seeks to help. For decades, her work in city government and housing development for DDM […]
Restaurateur Jamar White thought he’d be the only game in town earlier this year when he decided to open a third location of his small, yet successful chicken wing franchise, Buffalo Boss, on 125th St. in the heart of Harlem’s still-booming real estate market. “There really weren’t any wing places […]