Harlem Hospital Center

If You're A Man Who's Had Sex With A Man You Met On The Internet, You May Want A Meningitis Vaccine

If you're a man who's had "intimate contact with another man" whom you met on the Internet, the New York City Health Department recommends that you get a meningitis vaccination following a recent spike in the rare/potentially fatal disease.In addition to Internet rendezvous, the Health Department sa ... More >>

Meet The A$AP Mob: Talking To Ant, Ferg, J. Scott, Nast, Twelvy, And Yams

No city in the world can assemble a musical motley crew of disorderly young gents like New York, although simply forming a quartet isn't enough. Wu Tang Clan, Boot Camp Clik, The Diplomats—we're talking wolf pack numbers. The A$AP Mob's A$AP Rocky has been getting worldwide attention this ye ... More >>

National Night Out Against Crime In New York: Eight People Shot

Mayor Mike Bloomberg, several district attorneys and other law enforcement officials celebrated the "National Night Out Against Crime" yesterday by walking around the city at night in a show of solidarity against crime across the country. Criminals in New York celebrated the "Night Out" by shooting ... More >>

Redistricting Round Two: City Council Pushes Forward With New Commission Picks

The City Council today announced the key figures who will be charged with dividing up the city into new districts based on Census data. It's the next redistricting frontier! The announcement of the Council's appointments comes on the same day that important news broke in the statewide redistrict ... More >>

Light Snow Hits The City; 9/11 Victim Identified; Sun Employees Arrested

There are flakes in this photo. We promise. ​It's actually winter! Kind of...The city is seeing some light snow this morning. The National Weather Service predicts accumulation of less than one inch. It's not much, but it's something in this winter that hasn't always really felt like winter. ... More >>

Jazz Hayden and the Fight Against Stop-and-Frisk

An unlikely activist's battle with the NYPD's frisky business

Martin Luther King, Defender of the "Most Powerless"

Today is day we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in the United States, one of the single individuals to do the most of anyone in advancing the cause of civil rights in our nation during the twentieth century. It's worth remembering King's time in New York -- specifically two events, which both relate ... More >>

Alleged Butt-Grabber Shot Near His Own Butt

​22-year-old Jacob Sanford was shot in the lower back by an off duty police officer yesterday during a struggle at a subway station in Harlem. The New York Post reports Sanford is alleged to have grabbed two teenagers' rear ends at the D line stop at West 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. ... More >>

Breaking: Shooting on the A Train [Updated]

​ About 20 minutes ago, @Breaking911 tweeted that there was a shooting at the entrance of an A train in Harlem. The shooting occurred at West 125th and St. Nicholas Avenue. The victim is said to be in serious condition.

Cabbies Don't Want to Pick Up Bleeding People, Either

​Since it is something of a precious and rare cabbie who will happily make the jaunt from Manhattan to Brooklyn -- much less pick up anyone he or she decides he doesn't want to pick up, for whatever reason -- it's really no surprise that a number of cabbies didn't look kindly upon a bleeding ... More >>

Bystanders Lift Car Off Pinned Harlem Boy

​Four people in Manhattan yesterday saved a life and gained a story they'll likely tell for the rest of their lives when they helped lift a Honda Civic off of a little boy stuck underneath. Jaden Torres, either 9- or 10-years-old depending on who you believe, was playing in Harlem's Grant Hous ... More >>

Floyd Miller, 25, Shot Outside Bar, Staggers into Hospital, Collapses and Dies

​Floyd Miller, a 25-year-old guy from Harlem, was shot outside the NoCo Bar & Lounge on the Upper West Side early Sunday during a raging brawl that broke out in the midst of two birthday parties. The fight spilled outside, and someone started shooting. Miller caught a ride to Harlem Hospital, 26 b ... More >>

Bristol Palin Memoir Is Allegedly Happening; Derrick Oaks Is Your New Subway Hero; 40 States Are Freezing

​• Bristol Palin, 20-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin and no longer teen mom (or Dancing With the Stars contender), has a memoir in the works. Of course she does! It's apparently 304 pages and currently titled "Untitled Bristol Palin Memoir," according to Amazon, where forums are busy discus ... More >>

Beware of BMW Owners Who Will Shoot You and Lock You In Their Trunk

​The Daily News says police are investigating a bizarre Harlem "fender-bender," in which the driver of a BMW slammed into the back of a cab this morning, jumped out of the car, and ran away. Cops later popped the trunk and found a man with no ID and a gunshot wound in his head. (The man was rushed ... More >>

Washington Heights Killer Sought

Suspect in Washington Heights stabbing​Cops released this photo of the suspect in the fatal stabbing of Juan Benito at about 8:25 p.m. Friday in front of 1553 St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights. Benito, 26, was found stabbed in the thigh and was DOA at Harlem Hospital; he lived at 562 Wes ... More >>

Murder, Murder, Murder, Drunk Driving

Assorted tragedies and screw-ups: • An 18-year-old black man was found dead in the wee hours Sunday at West 136th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem. Cops found him at 3:10 a.m., shot "in his torso," as they put it. He was DOA at Harlem Hospital. Cops haven't released his name, and no one's be ... More >>

NYPD Looking for Escaped Prisoner, Tashia Evans

​The NYPD is asking for help locating Tashia Evans, 28, who escaped from Harlem Hospital, at 506 Lenox Avenue, yesterday at about 1:30 p.m. Evans, who was arrested for writing bad checks, using stolen credit cards, resisting arrest, and assaulting a police officer, fled in an unknown direction ... More >>

NYPD Seek Suspect in Harlem Homicide

​The NYPD is asking for the public's help identifying the man in this surveillance photo, who's wanted for questioning in the murder of Louis Spence, 42, of 130 E. 115th Street. The homicide occurred at 3:50 a.m. on Tuesday, October 12, at Madison Avenue and East 132nd Street. After responding ... More >>

90-Year-Old Man Attacked and Robbed in Harlem: Have You Seen These Suspects?

​The NYPD is looking for the two men pictured, suspected of robbing a 90-year-old man on December 4 at approximately 2 p.m. The victim was returning from grocery shopping to his apartment at 15 West 139th Street when the suspects approached from behind, put him in a choke hold, and threw him t ... More >>

Lemrick Nelson, Crown Heights Riot Murderer, Stabbed with Ice Pick

via the Post Lemrick Nelson​The man who stabbed and killed a Hasidic student 19 years ago in the Crown Heights race riots was stabbed in the head with an ice pick on Sunday. Some might say karma was inescapable for Lemrick Nelson, who police think was driving on the George Washington Bridge wh ... More >>

Ruben Larios, Harlem Teen, Shot to Death in His Own Lobby (Update)

​DATE: Friday, Feb. 5 at 11:23 p.m. LOCATION: 381 Edgecombe Ave, Harlem. Police say a 17-year-old named Ruben Larios was found late Friday in the lobby of his apartment building with two gunshot wounds to the chest. He was transported to Harlem Hospital, where he was later declared dead. Upd ... More >>

Somebody Got Murdered: Man. Shot. DOA.

View Larger Map DATE: Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 1:02 a.m. LOCATION: 200 West 131st Street, Manhattan. The police say a 28-year-old man was shot to death outside 200 West 131st St. in Manhattan early Thursday morning. He was declared dead at Harlem Hospital. Know anything about this case? Drop us ... More >>

Somebody Got Murdered: A Death on West 150th Street

View Larger Map DATE: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at approximately 10:50 p.m. LOCATION: 226 West 150 Street, Manhattan. The police have yet to release the identity of a 29-year-old man who was fatally wounded outside 226 West 150 Street Tuesday night. He was declared dead at Harlem Hospital at 2 a.m. ... More >>

The AIDS-Babies-as-Guinea-Pigs Story Is Finally Over. Right?

Face Off

A Harlem funeral home has been sued for losing bodies and filching corpses from nearby hospitals. Now it must answer charges that a dead man's body was chewed up by rats.

Private Enemy

Two New York rappers dreamed of stardom. MF Doom got it. MF Grimm didn't.

Video: On 'the Loss to My Own Heart'

Documentary wrestles with the experience of abortion

Faye Wattleton Is Still Here

Former president of Planned Parenthood says wake up

Mayor Mike Makes His Case

A feisty Bloomberg sells his record on schools, health, crime, budget & jobs

When There Was No Choice

On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the memory of illegal abortion fades

A Seven-Year Ricochet

With an Eye Lost, a Police Shooting Victim Waits for Justice

A Great Night in Harlem

Bringing Musicians Back to Life

No Shelter for Transsexuals

Case of Preoperative Woman Raped at Men's Homeless Facility Exemplifies City's Dilemma

Last Train to Waffleville

Proof of Life

A Death in the Wu-Tang Clan

Genetic Sleuthing

Researchers Seek African American Women for Breast Cancer Study

Policing Their Own

What the NYPD Did Not Reveal About Former Chief Louis Anemone

The Loophole Clause

On the Street With a 12-Step Santa

Uneasy Exits

Hasty discharges may put Manhattan Psychiatric Center patients at risk

Soul Remains

Click and Learn

A new model for AIDS treatment activism

The Outpatient is In

A New Harlem Clinic May Be a Litmus Test for the Future of City Health Care

The Battle for Harlem

Sharpton Camp Assails Butts as Upstate Republicans Maneuver To Exploit Black Power Struggle

Starve and Sever

Is the Mayor Trying To Get Out of the Hospital Business?