Author: Harlem Shill
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123 and Broadway
Looking at the photo above it’s hard to imagine that this is Harlem – 123rd Street and Broadway – even if it was taken in 1895. The photo was taken by Robert Bracklow (1849-1919) and shows street car tracks (look in the bottom left) which means that this would be Broadway, vs. the street running…
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Neighborhood Safety Team Coming
ABC News is reporting that East Harlem will be getting a Neighborhood Street Team to address the uptick in violence that has occurred recently. The NYPD will deploy one of 5 more anti-gun teams to East Harlem’s 25th precinct after a particularly violent weekend where 29 people were shot on Friday through Sunday. That’s up…
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Hue Arts: The Brown Paper
Hue Arts has released a Brown Paper on the experiences and realities of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and all People of Color arts entities. The project seeks to reveal the value they bring to their communities and to the cultural ecosystem of New York City as a whole. Ensuring that arts…
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EH in PS1
The current show at MOMA’s PS1 – Greater New York – has a number of Harlem artists/images on display. One particularly great collection is a wall of photos from Hiram Maristany, who filmed the unrest and revolution in East Harlem during the Young Lords Era of 1969-70. Maristany was born in East Harlem and became…
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Just Looking Down
Walking past the Fred Moore School with it’s great (sanctioned) graffiti: I looked down and noticed, stuck in the concrete of a window well, a geodetic bench mark from the US Coast and Geodetic Survey: Locating a survey marker in a window well seemed a poor choice, given that the wall of the school restricted…
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In The Subway. In the 80’s.
The BBC has a great piece on photos from Brooklyn-based photographer Jamel Shabazz. His work in the 1980’s captures the world underground in the subway – finding fashion, joy and love in surprising images. To watch the video see: Patch.com Reports On Very, Very Bad Apartment Buildings Patch.com’s Nick Garber and a colleague report on…
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Cast Iron Soho and East Harlem
You may be aware of the upzoning plan that De Blasio has for Soho – to bring more affordable housing into a neighborhood that is rarely affordable today. You may also know that the landmarking of many properties in Soho was done to call out the use of gorgeous cast iron that allowed builders to…
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Zero Vehicle Households
Zero-vehicle households are concentrated in Manhattan and southern parts of the Bronx. Outer borough households generally have more vehicles, a function of land use and density, non-vehicle transportation options, and income. The number of household vehicle registrations increased by 8.7% between 2010 and 2020, resulting in a very slight increase in the ratio of vehicle…
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Housing Inequality
Harlem’s rate of homeownership is strikingly low. A new choose your adventure video game attempts to explore why housing in the U.S. has not fairly delivered housing-derived middle-class lives to many Americans, particularly people of color. This game explodes the larger American myth that homeownership can be achieved by anyone through hard work and smart decision-making. The…
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School Children and Vaccination Rates
Gothamist has a new look at vaccination rates in New York City schools. The map below shows the proportion of eligible students at each school who’ve received a full course of COVID-19 vaccines (from a low of 10% up to a high of 93%): Harlem’s High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering is Harlem’s highest…
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Dessert
In a pair of recent Eater articles, Harlem restaurants got shout outs for superlative conclusions to any meal or evening. Field Trip and Settepani are both highlighted. Read the reviews (below) to learn why you need to sample these local jewels. https://ny.eater.com/maps/best-tiramisu-nyc https://ny.eater.com/maps/best-desserts-nyc The Lindy Hop Went to Scandinavia Listen to the story of the…
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NPR.org Reconsiders Scott Joplin’s ‘The Entertainer’
Scott Joplin introduced Ragtime to America and published his most enduring song ‘The Entertainer’ (as featured in the soundtrack to the 1970’s movie, ‘The Sting’) in 1902. While Joplin’s work was wildly popular at the time, by 1916, Joplin was living in difficult circumstances in Harlem. He was listed as being employed as a “music…
