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By W.A.T.E.R. 17 Special to the AmNews

Community radio allows locals to express their grievances regarding relevant issues while also permitting them to have more control over music selections played over the airwaves as well as online. With a recent $2 million overhaul, Harlem’s WHCR 90.3 FM expanded and upgraded its studios with more modern equipment and is well prepared to continue providing its beloved community with a mass array of programming.

By John Del Signore

With the inevitability of a snake eating a milkshake and then eating its own tail, the unstoppable Harlem Shake meme has spawned its own restaurant in, where else, Harlem. Harlem Shake the eatery will officially open its doors tomorrow on West 124th Street, serving burgers, hot dogs and milkshakes out of a retro space that, according to the press release, is "meant to recall a dry goods store that was built in the 1800s then converted to a diner in the 1940s and run through the latter half of the 20th century."

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff |

The famed Ali Forney Center (AFC) now calls Harlem home. The center, which serves homeless LGBTQ youth, moved to its current location on 125th Street near St. Nicolas Avenue in December after its Chelsea drop-in center was ruined by Hurricane Sandy.

By Jeff Mays

HARLEM — Not long after she was accepted into Columbia Business School in 2008, Denise Adusei found that she and her husband Jeff were expecting their first child.

When they went to find a suitable pre-k, though, they came up empty. Harlem has 25,000 children under age 5 years old and about 5,000 pre-k spots, Adusei found through her research. Many Harlem parents place their children in pre-school outside of the neighborhood.