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  1. October 12, 2026 A Jewish activist filed a complaint asking the DOE to investigate Heritage School teacher Mia Kurzer over her presence at protesters' disruption of an Oct. 7 vigil in Union Square; she had no comment.
  2. September 27, 2026 An MTA track worker found the body of a man, dead at least a few days, in a utility closet on the 6 line north of 125th Street; police do not suspect a crime.
  3. September 14, 2026 Edwin Jimenez, 67, died three weeks after a fight outside the Carver Houses at 220 E. 102nd St..
  4. September 9, 2026 The MTA will take 15 feet of Mensch Supply on East 106th Street for the Second Avenue subway extension rather than the whole store, which the same line already displaced once in 2007.
  5. September 6, 2026 The corner of East 101st and Madison is now John William Perry Way, for the officer who stopped filing his retirement papers at One Police Plaza and ran to the South Tower
  6. September 1, 2026 DOT broke ground on 2.5 miles of bus lanes on 116th Street between Morningside and Pleasant Avenues, where buses crawl at speeds close to 4 mph, plus a protected bike lane on Pleasant Avenue.
  7. August 27, 2026 Merchants suing over Mamdani's city-owned supermarket plan say Sanitation fines spiked once they began canvassing; DSNY says it has issued 223 commercial summonses in Harlem since March 1
  8. August 25, 2026 HPD filed to rezone the block around 22 East 119th Street for 762 affordable and supportive units across three buildings, up from 700 in the earlier plan.
  9. August 16, 2026 A 64-year-old man died after a medical episode inside the 25th Precinct stationhouse following his arrest, the fourth death inside an NYPD booking facility this year.
  10. July 22, 2026 The city issued a request for developers to finally build 140 mixed-income apartments on a Second Avenue lot that's sat vacant for nearly 20 years.
  11. June 26, 2026 DOT added dedicated bus lanes in both directions on E. 116th Street from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue, running 24 hours a day; the crosstown corridor carries some of Harlem's heaviest bus traffic. (Streetsblog)

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