The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.

After Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" became a smash hit, visitorship to Alexander Hamilton's historic home tripled.

The search for a teenager who vanished in the fast moving East River resumed Saturday, as it emerged that a friend told the 15-year-old victim to get out of the water — because she couldn’t swim.

NEW YORK - A search is underway for a 15-year-old ... As of 5:26 p.m. she had not been found. The part of the East River where the teen went in is known to be particularly dangerous.

“We basically began toying with a new sport and created new rules ... The Savannah Bananas have been called the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, a comparison the Coles embrace, but also want to ...

Charles Rangel, the longtime U.S. congressman from New York City and the last surviving member of the "Gang of Four," has died. He was 94. Born in Harlem on June 11, 1930, Rangel was a Democratic ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Charlie Rangel, a former congressman from Harlem who was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the lone surviving member of the "Gang of Four," has died.

and little-known deals that reveal how power works in New York and Washington, D.C. In nearly all of his accounts, Rangel portrayed himself as a plain but street-smart everyman from Harlem trying ...

The Harlem community was in mourning Monday after ... Flags were at half-staff at the City College of New York. The school has the Center for Public Service in Rangel's name, as well as the ...

Once known as the "Lion of Lenox Avenue," the outspoken, gravel-voiced Rangel served as a representative for what is now New York's 13th congressional district in Harlem from 1971 until 2017.

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member of the Congressional ...