Month: May 2023
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Figure Skating in Harlem Wins The International Olympic Committee’s Women And Sports Trophy 2021 For The Americas
Figure Skating in Harlem, a not-for-profit organization located in New York City that provides girls with innovative year-round health, education and fitness programs was (finally) officially presented with the IOC Women and Sport Award 2021 Trophy for the Americas. The ceremony for this 2-year-old award took place during a side event co-hosted by the International…
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Eartha Kitt
Austin Hansen photographed Kitt leading a dance group at the Harlem YMCA in the early 1950’s. Eartha had been a professional dancer, dancing and touring with the Katherine Dunham Company between 1943 and 1948 before she became more widely known as a singer. Note the photo below, and the vents under the windows as the…
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Harlem Hellfighters
A selection of great images of the Harlem Hellfighters from WW1
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Inez Dickens Demands Fair Share for Harlem
The empty and imposing building on Central Park North that began its existence in 1914 as a branch of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association (YWHA) (and housed recently immigrated Jewish women in need of assistance), was sold in 1942 to the U.S. Army and briefly used as a rest-and-relaxation center for local soldiers. After the war it…
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(Un)Common Stock
This rather dull piece of Harlem ephemera – a 5 shares worth of stock in the Harlem Stock Exchange – doesn’t on it’s surface have much going for it. Almost the only thing of interest here is that of the $100,000 total amount of stock, a certain Julius D. Westmoreland owned 5 shares. And this…
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Lost Church – Part 2
A month or two ago I’d mentioned that The Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital, just east of Marcus Garvey Park (between 122nd and 121st Streets and Madison and Park Avenues) replaced a Harlem church (outlined in green below) The fuzzy photo (below) showed the rock rubble in Marcus Garvey park before the depression era work…
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Harlem Rose Garden Tree Tour
Join the New York Botanical Garden’s Levi on an extensive tour of the Harlem Rose Garden identifying trees, noting their diversity, and diving into a range of topics from ecology, plant diversity. Harlem’s Julia De Burgos At Lincoln Center East Harlem’s poet – Julia De Burgos – is currently being celebrated with massive murals and a quote…
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Bill Perkins
Harlem’s 125th Street BID remembers Bill Perkins Pictured l to r: Joyce Stephens (then NYPD 28TH Precinct Commanding Officer, Barbara Askins (BID) William Perkins (City Council) at a BID’ Fund Raiser — Sports and Fashion Gala . Councilmember Perkins was a voting member of the 125th Street BID Board of Directors. He kept the BID…
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Skating On The Harlem River
The Museum of the City of New York has a great image of children lacing up their skates to skate on the Harlem River at McComb’s Dam (155th Street). The image is from 1904. Further South, The Triborough A great, 1937 photograph of the Triborough Bridge by Berenice Abbott as a part of the Federal…
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Merch
Brickmania has Harlem Hellfighter figures for sale. See this listing on Ebay. As Seen In Harlem
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Izzi Spiller’s Band
A photo dated by an Ebay seller to 1936 of Harlem students in a percussion class. The drummer on the right has a drum with Izzie Spiller’s Band. Note the teacher, seated at the piano, and the white-faced drummer figure that is the focal point for the students’ gaze. Harlem Sign For $9,000 you can…
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Save The Date: HNBA Talks Trash!
On Tuesday, June 13th, at 7:00 PM, HNBA will hold our final in-person monthly meeting before our summer break. On June 13th we’ll be meeting at the Henry J. Carter Hospital – enter at the corner of 122/Park. We’re working on getting local elected officials and DSNY on hand to talk about what can be…
