Category: Culture

  • Harlem Grown Garden (West 127th Street)

    Harlem Grown Garden (West 127th Street)

    The Harlem Grown Garden, on West 127th Street is a jewel in the community. It’s got chickens, raised beds, solar power, and a robust community engagement schedule that includes compost drop-offs. And to top it off, the East side of the garden has a fantastic mural for all to see: All The East Harlem Block…

  • Manhattanhenge

    Manhattanhenge

    It’s back. Time to look west at New Jersey on any of our streets as the sun sets. Admittedly, the ridge of Morningside Heights, and St. Nicholas Park block a pure vista. Still, it’s a cool thing. Today and tomorrow are optimal viewing. Slutty Vegan Coming To Harlem Pinky Cole has announced that the Atlanta…

  • PLease, DO NOT FEED pigeons RICE!

    PLease, DO NOT FEED pigeons RICE!

    As seen on Park Avenue The Silent Procession Will Be Back – September 18th Summer Playstreet Back on West 124 If you know of 8 – 17 year olds, send them to West 124th Street this summer. The Playstreet will be between Mount Morris Park West and Lenox, on West 124 from July 11 –…

  • Community Advisory Board Members With a History of Addiction, Sought

    Community Advisory Board Members With a History of Addiction, Sought

    The Department of Health and Mental Hygene would like to get community members with lived experience of drug use to join a Community Advisory Board. Here’s their pitch: I hope this email finds you well.   My name is Roxana from the New York City Health Department of Health’s Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention,…

  • Cantilever

    Cantilever

    I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but in the last decade, the number of cantilever buildings (exploiting air rights, mostly) seems to have exploded. This proposed building (for lower Manhattan) is particularly dramatic: But uptown is not without cantilever buildings, even if the extra engineering costs rarely justify the design. Perhaps the best known…

  • All Saints

    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…

  • Vote Today!

    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…

  • Get Out and Vote!

    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…

  • 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…

  • Boundless

    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-…

  • Shakespeare Coming to Marcus Garvey Park

    Shakespeare Coming to Marcus Garvey Park

    The Classical Theatre of Harlem announced casting for its upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Marcus Garvey Park – July 5-29. The play will be free to the public and reservations can be made starting today. Continuing CTH’s mission to place diversity at the forefront of their performances, this interpretation of Twelfth Night will engage with the…

  • Metropolitan Hospital’s Flood Wall Resiliency Project

    Metropolitan Hospital’s Flood Wall Resiliency Project

    On May 25, 2022, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), NYC Health + Hospitals, New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Jackie Bray, and community members broke ground for a new flood protection system project at NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan in East Harlem.  The project includes a perimeter flood…