Category: Culture
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Mayor Adams Continues to Back Injection Site Opening 24/7
Mayor Eric Adams voiced support for extending Harlem’s safe injection site’s hours to a 24/7 operation in May on Twitter. Since then, OnPoint (the provider that runs the Harlem injection site) has maintained a steady lobbying effort to operate around the clock. 10 months later, while there is still no data showing any decline in…
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Tito Puente
Uptown Grand Central does it again. Another great mural on E. 124, between Madison and Park. Allison Ruiz and BC1 created this mural of the mambo king Tito Puente. Uptown Grand Central’s Grandscale Mural Project is located on 125th & 124th streets from Third to Madison, and along Third, Lexington and Park avenues. Hashtag #GrandscaleMuralProject.…
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View of Harlem from City College
Here are a pair of views of Harlem (looking eastward) from St. Nicholas Park (City College): The photographer is Robert L. Bracklow and the images were taken on August 14, 1909 – 113 years ago today. Note the gardening that is going on in St. Nicholas Park: And the laundry out drying: To see the…
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Harlem Debutant Ball
The amazing site – BLACK ARCHIVES – has recently published an amazing series of photographs from the ‘Harlem Debutantes’ series by Cornell Capa (1950) via the LIFE Photo Collection: Debutantes Ball Series The images of Black joy emerging from the stiff formality of the event, are fantastic. Patch on Ebay An FDNY/EMS patch for sale…
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119th And Lexington
There is a wonderful view of Lexington Avenue looking north from 119th Street on sale on Ebay: Click HERE to see the listing. The 8″ x 10″ glass negative has a huge amount of detail. Just look at the top image of how the sign for 119th Street wraps around the streetlight so the street…
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KISS
It’s not often you link Harlem and 1970’s heavy metal, but a weird factoid popped up on of those LinkNYC screens the other day that noted that Gene Simmons taught (for six months) grade 6 in East Harlem before his band – KISS – took off in 1973. From Our Georgia Correspondent On a (very)…
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Jamel Shabazz Photography
Make sure to get up to the Bronx Museum to see the fantastic photography show of Jamel Shabazz’s work (1980-2020). https://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/jamel-shabazz-eyes-on-the-street Jamel Shabazz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of fifteen, he picked up his first camera and started to document his peers. Inspired by photographers Leonard Freed, James Van…
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Family Activities on West 120th Street, Today
All Saints > Capital Prep Last winter I snapped a picture of the Gothic script that made the 130th Street entrance to the former All Saints Elementary School #52 so charming. The gilt letters, hidden behind a protective mesh still glowed. This week I noticed that Capital Prep – the charter school that will occupy…
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CUNY’s East Harlem Restaurant Guide
CUNY has come up with a somewhat pedantic restaurant guide for East Harlem. They’ve covered most of the bases, but oddly have some restaurants that haven’t been open for 2 years now and others are located firmly in Central Harlem. It seems surprising that they didn’t check whether or not the restaurants were still in…
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Harlem Flats (Back Lot Laundry)
In 2011 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (outside LA) acquired the “Harlem Flats (Back Lot Laundry),” an important early painting made in 1907 by Ernest Lawson, one of a group of Ashcan school artists called The Eight. “Harlem Flats” was purchased for The Huntington by Kelvin Davis. Notice that the boys are…
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Concerts in Marcus Garvey Park
Head to the bandshell for two free evenings of music in Marcus Garvey Park: Friday, Aug. 26, 7 p.m.: CPJF – Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force / Calvin Booker On Tap & Friends in association with Jazzmobile Saturday, Aug. 27, 3 p.m.: CPJF – Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet /…
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Join U.S. Kirsten Gillibrand’s Town Hall on Thursday August 25th at the Schomburg Center
Join United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for a public Manhattan Town Hall on Thursday, August 25th at the Schomburg Center in Harlem. Senator Gillibrand really wants to hear from you! She will give brief remarks and answer questions on the topics and issues you care about most. The Senator’s staff will also be available to…
