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photo credit: The New York Times Nearing the completion of a much needed renovation, the Billie Holiday Theater , a Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood institution, is slated to open its doors again this May.

Janie Washington-Bennett (4th from right) with volunteers who are campaigning for signatures to turn Belmont Avenue in Brownsville to "Dwayne Pearl Washington Way.

photo credit: poematisnaturalis.org Mayor Bill de Blasio made a $1 million pledge for the funding of a long-awaited community center for Marcy Houses, according to a recent report by DNAinfo .

Photo: Ars Technica In 2008, Verizon promised that every New York City household would have access to its fiber-optic FiOS service by June 2014. It's 2017, and the telecommunications conglomerate has not come close to fulfilling that promise.

photo credit: Angus Osborn/Getty Images After a decade of exploding sales, the market for high-end brownstones in New York is slowing down, according to recent report of the Financial Times .

June Jordan and Gwendolyn Brooks Beginning in March during the 2017 National Black Writers Conference and again in April during National Poetry Month , The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College , will host two separate programs that pay

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a comprehensive plan called "Vital Brooklyn," last Thursday at Medgar Evers College that would channel $1.

The City has issued a hazardous travel advisory for Tuesday, March 14, 2017. A nor'easter is forecasted to bring heavy snow along with strong and potentially damaging winds that will create hazardous travel conditions throughout Tuesday.

Photo: Wiki Commons Op-Ed By Assemblymember Walter T. Mosley Several weeks ago, the President released a budget that promises to cut vital and projected revenue that New York State depends on, in favor of military spending.

The problem of homelessness in New York City has reached its highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930s.