Month: July 2023
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Little Harlem
Matches for sale on Ebay, HERE. Summer of Soul / Harlem Festival of Culture Hello Friend! My name is Musa Jackson and as a child, I was one of the original Harlemites who attended the historic Harlem Cultural Festival of ‘69 and also starred in the Oscar winning documentary Summer of Soul. Harlem Festival of Culture (HFC,) a…
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National Night Out is Coming
An amazing link-up for Tuesday’s National Night Out at the 25th Precinct. Lots for the kids, lots for everyone. National Night Out culminates annually on the first Tuesday in August. TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2023 National Night Out enhances the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement while bringing back a true sense of community. Furthermore, it provides…
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Memorial Walk
The East Harlem Committee For Good Government and Progressives Educating New Yorkers, Inc. are currently preparing a memorial booklet to commemorate the lives of our beloved community members who lost their lives to suicide. To make this initiative a success, they are seeking sponsors interested in supporting this meaningful cause. If you would like to…
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Keeping Hydrated and Staying Safe in the Sun
Spending time outside in the summer is a great way to be physically active, reduce stress, and get vitamin D. But, it’s important to keep hydrated and lower your chance of skin cancer by protecting your skin from the sun. The top risk factor for most types of skin cancer is ultraviolet (UV) ray exposure.…
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Harlem Foundry
A standard tenement entrance on Easts 125th Street: Notice the cast iron pillar on the right, and the foundry advertising on the pillar’s base: The address is not one we’d use today: 106 ST ER NY But the meaning is clear: 106th Street at the East River. Today the FDR has wiped out any waterside…
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Events Sponsored By Senator Cleare
Our State Senator from Harlem is sponsoring a number of events between now and October:
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Harlem Club
The Austrian painter Hans Bohler met the African American sculptor Selma Burke when she was studying in Vienna in the mid 1930’s. In 1936, he moved with her to live in New York where he was introduced to a number of the artistic figures in the Harlem Renaissance. Bohler frequented Jack Carter’s – a mixed…
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Summer Reading Circle
As Seen In Harlem Sisters’ Restaurant. Meet Judicial Candidates
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New Loo Coming to Jefferson Park
The city has contracted to bring ‘Portland Toilets’ to parks with no facilities. The model they’ve gone with has extraordinary durability that can be chalked up to its defense-first design. “I think one thing we have ahead of other toilet designs is that we’ve learned people like to do nefarious things” So the Portland Loo…
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Black Women Who Write
Apply to join Obsidian: A Black Womanist Writers Collective Application deadline: July 31, 2023 OlaRonke Akinmowo, creator and director of the Free Black Women’s Library, invites all New York City–based Black women, femme, and nonbinary established and emerging writers to apply to join Obsidian: A Black Womanist Writers Collective. This one-year commitment (September 2023–September 2024)…
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Talking Trash
NY Magazine’s Intelligencer has a great interview with the head of NYC’s DSNY. Jessica Tish answers it all below: I want to read you a quote from a Streetsblog article that came out in March of last year: “In conversations with policy experts, architects, elected officials, and former city workers, one word came up repeatedly to describe…
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East Harlem Drive-In
East River Plaza’s Rooftop Theater and Drive-In series is expanding. Visit East River Plaza every 3rd Sunday of each month through September for their Sunday Cinema! They may be a bit delayed (thanks to the rain), but come join your neighbors this weekend for “Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse.” The fun starts at 6pm – music,…
