Month: June 2022
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Children and Family-Focused Block Party Coming to East 126th Street
The 2041 5th Ave Co-Op on the corner of 126/5th will be hosting a children and family-focused block party on Saturday, July 23rd. The block party will be held on East 126th Street between Madison and 5th. The event is being held to celebrate the children in the community and everyone who is young at…
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All Saints
The large former Catholic Church of All Saints at the corner of East 129th Street and Madison Avenue is currently under massive renovation – all in preparation for serving as a school in 2023. This scene, from the film Cotton Comes to Harlem, shows the church and the block in 1969 Note the relatively treeless…
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Vote Today!
Make sure to head to the polls today to vote for Governor and State Assembly (among others). Church > Synagogue > Shake Shack On the north-west corner of 5th and 125th Street, the lot occupied by Shake Shack and the check cashing business was, at one point the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church of Harlem. In…
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Harlem Hellfighters Honored 104 Years Ago Today
The Canadian Observer, was a newspaper and the voice of the Black community in Toronto, published by J.R.B Whitney from 1914 to 1919. The paper was rooted in the descendants of former American slaves who traveled the Underground Railroad to Canada – the Underground Railroad and the quest for freedom in Canada is a central…
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Morningside Park View
Ebay has a great postcard (sent with a 1 cent stamp to Newark, NJ) that looks down from Morningside Park to… Focusing on a very distinctive complex that takes up an entire block with white massed stonework on the lower two floors, and brickwork above: It’s possible to identify this building as being between 118th…
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Black Cop
From 1969, a black and white report on the complexities of being a Black cop and the questions of allegiances – to the community (Central Harlem) or to the NYPD. In 1969 only 6% of the NYPD were Black officers. Kent Garrett produced this piece. You can see the corner of Adam Clayton Powell Blvd…
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City Council Districts to be Redrawn
Here’s How to Have Your Say in the Process: Here are all the slides from the HNBA power point presentation on redistricting of City Council seats. Here is the Redistricting Commission website – The website will have the most up to date information on the process, as it unfolds. The Staff memorandum has a good overview of why they chose…
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Metro-North Bridge Over The Harlem River
For an olde timey image of crossing from Harlem to The Bronx in 1870, this image from the Museum of the City of New York, can’t be beat. And, remember, at the time, that bridge, and especially that train, were state of the art – precisely why the photo was taken. Performance at Harlem Rose…
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Get Out and Vote!
Harlem and East Harlem have the chance to choose who is going to represent them in Albany and here (locally) – right now. Early voting is currently underway and ongoing until Sunday, June 26th. Primary election day is Tuesday, June 28th. Your voice counts and choices matter. Over the last 6 months, we’ve had a…
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Neptune Frost – Catch the Harlem Premiere
Dedza Films and Kino Lorber have just released our latest title NEPTUNE FROST, which tells the story of a cosmic romance between an intersex hacker and a coltan miner that seeds revolution. Written and directed by multidisciplinary artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, the sci-fi musical features original music by Williams tackling war, identity, and…
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Boundless
Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black Comic Futures, is an exhibit at the Schomburg Library that celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Comic Book Festival. Make sure to check out the trove of photographs, memorabilia, creator highlights, comic book reading stations, and clips from past festival programs-…
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Harlem Loses Funding Because Kristin Jordan Votes Against NYC Budget
City and State New York is reporting that Council Member Kristin Jordan voted against the city’s latest budget: Richardson Jordan voted against it, saying she objected to its increasing the NYPD’s budget https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/harlem-got-millions-nycs-2023-budget-heres-where-its-going As a consequence, Jordan’s 9th City Council district which covers much of Harlem will lose out on funding for council member proposals…
