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Shrugging off gloomy predictions about the city’s future, big-league developers on Monday unveiled plans for transformative new projects on Harlem’s famed 125th Street, including a new Target. The deals — remarkable strokes of confidence in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — aren’t long-range pipe dreams either, but fully financed ventures that will break ground …

The coronavirus led to some ruff times for dog groomer Brian Taylor. But Taylor, who calls himself “Dogfather of Harlem,” found a way to reinvent his business amid the pandemic: He’s taken his show on the road, transitioning from his uptown brick-and mortar-shop to a mobile van that wheels around to pamper pups. The 37-year-old …

Wynton Marsalis, Mary Wilson and top chefs, including Melba Wilson, Carla Hall, José Andrés, Emeril Lagasse, and Bobby Flay, are among VIPs expected to appear at the Harlem EatUp! virtual festival Saturday. Tamron Hall and Sandra Bookman will host the one-hour special on Ch. 7. The fund-raiser will feature musical performances, plus cooking demos by …

Scores of black-owned businesses making the rounds on social media are helping some Big Apple eateries bounce back from the coronavirus sooner than expected. LoLo’s Seafood Shack in Harlem, known for its Caribbean-style seafood, has seen revenues go from 50 percent during the darkest days of the pandemic to 70 percent — and now back …

Harlem’s Just Sam was just super on Sunday night, bringing home the “American Idol” title. The 21-year-old former subway singer, whose real name is Samantha Diaz, won the first remote finale in “Idol” history — the long-running contest left the stage this season due to the coronavirus crisis. It was a triumphant moment that even …

Sometimes you would have to wait out the cliff diving from Acapulco, or the Penn Relays, or a soap-box derby from some small town you never heard of, or a log-rolling event, maybe a little demolition derby. That was OK. That was the surcharge in those glorious days of “Wide World of Sports.” There were …