Losing weight is the key to stopping diabetes before it starts! Project HEED—Help Educate to Eliminate Diabetes is a free eight-session workshop offered in English and Spanish that showed impressive results when it was introduced last year to overweight East Harlem residents with pre-diabetes. Participants learned simple ways to eat healthier with the foods of their culture, be more active, and read labels on food and drinks. After one year, participants in the Project HEED workshop lost an aver… Continue

Dear Neighbor:

Unfortunately, I write you with extremely upsetting news regarding a member of the East Harlem Tutorial Program family.

5pm Saturday evening, former EHTP student and current staff Glenn Wright was stabbed twice in the neck while washing his grandmother’s windows on the Lower East Side, in what appears to have been a tragic case of mistaken identity. With his family, friends, and many of us from EHTP by his side, he passed away yesterday afternoon.

A suspect has been apprehended… Continue

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By David Gonzalez The New York Times, June 27, 2009

The walls of East Harlem can speak. Dozens of colorful murals line the narrow streets and wide avenues, celebrating pleneros and poets, rumberos and revolutionaries. Defying gentrification, their dazzling colors brighten sun-starved stretches and declare that the neighborhood’s residents refuse to budge.… Continue