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A McDonald's is coming to 101 W 116th Street. A McDonald's restaurant is coming to a historic Harlem building. Recently posted construction notices reveal the fast food chain is moving into a ground-floor space inside the Bernheimer Building at 101-111 W 116th Street, located on the corner of Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard. The elegant two-story property was originally constru...

Urban Market of Sugar Hill is opening a store at 700 St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem. Three new supermarkets are about to expand where Harlemites can shop for groceries. Fine Fare is taking over the old Rite Aid location at 2170 Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 117th Street, and has a "Now hiring" sign in front of the still-under-construction space. A worker on site last week said...

Grant's Tomb is the backdrop for "A Great Day in Harlem" The 52nd annual Harlem Week—a 16-day community festival filled with live music, street fairs and more—kicks off this Saturday, August 1 and runs through Sunday, August 16. From "A Great Day in Harlem," featuring the International Village market and the Concert Under the Stars, to Harlem Day, including the Sundae Sermon fes...

Summer Streets run through Harlem. The city-wide Summer Streets event is back in Manhattan for the next three Saturdays—and stretching all the way to Inwood again. The car-free event, taking place on August 1, 8 and 15 from 7am-3pm, will start at its usual point by the Brooklyn Bridge and extend all the way to Dyckman Street for the second year in a row. Pedestrians, joggers, an...