Two weeks ago, I wrote a post about killer raccoons in Harlem and now somehow I’m stuck in an email thread about it.

Bill O’Reilly is not the worst person on Fox News—except for when he definitely is, as in last night’s wild and racist discussion with Donald Trump about black people.

Earlier this week, Sean Combs, a.k.a. hip-hop and vodka mogul Diddy, or Puff Daddy, announced that he had become the co-founder of a new charter school, due to open in Harlem this summer. The school will be overseen by Steve Perry, a union-buster accused of juicing graduation stats at his schools in Connecticut.

No one should be driving around Manhattan with four loaded handguns in their car. So it was a good thing when NYPD officers stopped Daniel Figueroa in Harlem Sunday and arrested him for carrying three heaters on his person and another elsewhere in the vehicle, right? Well, it’s complicated.

“This nowhere,” begins Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts in her 2011 chronicle Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, “between dream and reality, between what one sees and what one imagines, between what is happening and your attempt to describe it, is the territory we wander while awake.”

Happy birthday, kiddo. Here’s one of those Minion things you like, plus a little box stuffed with cocaine. What’s in the big one? Also cocaine.

A Brooklyn man was charged Tuesday for the killing of 21-year-old transgender woman Islan Nettles, nearly two years after confessing to the brutal beating in Harlem.

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According to a preliminary report on the deadly March 12th East Harlem explosion, the National Transportation Safety Board found "small gas leaks below the pavement" while testing an 127-year-old iron gas-main running underneath the site.

The final victim in the suspected gas explosion that leveled two East Harlem apartment buildings last Wednesday has been identified. The AP is reporting that Mayumi Nakamura, who died from burns, is the eighth victim in the blast that injured more than 60 people.

Yesterday, CBS News acquired security camera footage from a building across the street from where a gas explosion in Harlem left eight dead and more than 70 people injured. The video shows the windows of the adjacent building being blown out as debris pours onto the street and nearly knocks over a man walking down the…

New York officials say an eighth body was pulled from the rubble today after a massive gas explosion brought down most of one building and part of another yesterday in Harlem.

Five people are still missing after yesterday's gas explosion in East Harlem. The death toll from the blast now stands at seven, with more than 70 injured. Two people remain in critical condition, including a 15-year-old boy.

At least 73 people are being treated for injuries in local hospitals following an explosion in East Harlem this morning. Seven have died and authorities have identified three women among the dead, Griselde Camacho, 44, Carmen Tanco, 67, and Rosaura Hernandez-Barrios, 22.

[People run after an explosion and building collapse in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York on Wednesday. The explosion leveled an apartment building, and sent flames and billowing black smoke above the skyline. Image via Jeremy Sailing/AP.]

A gas leak triggered a powerful explosion in an East Harlem apartment building this morning, injuring dozens of people and killing at least seven. More than 200 firefighters responded to the blast, which completely destroyed one building and most of another.