Still Wack

New York Newsday By Rocco Parascandola   Twenty years after the height of the crack epidemic, Keith Haring’s simple message still speaks loudly It was just another act of graffiti in East Harlem. It even said so on Keith Haring’s $25 summons. But when...

Lessons Learned from a Drug Scourge

New York Newsday By Sheryl McCarthy   When Richard Curtis was living on 119th Street at Fifth Avenue in 1987, life in the East Harlem neighborhood could be described in just a few words. “It was Crack Central,” he says. The cheap new form of cocaine...