Category: Culture

  • Let’s Work Towards Carbon Neutrality

    Let’s Work Towards Carbon Neutrality

    NYC Accelerator is a free program through the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability committed to restoring NYC and its buildings. The Accelerator team experts work with building representatives to improve building’s energy and water efficiency through building upgrades which create healthier buildings, save owners and residents money on their utility bills, and improve local air quality. …

  • Photoville in Harlem

    Photoville in Harlem

    Photoville – an annual outdoor celebration of photography has a couple of sites in Harlem: Location number 8 on the map (above) is on the esplanade walking and biking path along the East River, between 97th and 98th Streets. The photography represents an afro-futurist vision of presence in an imagined, retro future. The images are…

  • Harlem Holiday Lights 2021

    Harlem Holiday Lights 2021

    Tonight! Festivities kick off at 5 p.m. on West 125th Street just east of Broadway, with a Parade of Lights Kickoff. Then the parade will go south along Adam Clayton Powell down to 110th Street, and then come back on Lenox but go around Marcus Garvey Park and then head west again on 125th. There…

  • A Letter to the NYPD and the Mayor

    A Letter to the NYPD and the Mayor

    Barbara Askins, the indefatigable head of the 125th Street BID, has written a powerful letter to NYC Police Commissioner Shea and Mayor De Blasio regarding the increasingly intolerable quality of life issues in Harlem. If you would like to tweet the Mayor: https://twitter.com/NYCMayor If you would like to tweet the NYPD Commissioner: Boot Scraper A…

  • HNBA November Meeting, Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7:00 PM

    HNBA November Meeting, Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7:00 PM

    Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 9th. at 7:00 PM HNBA will welcome Michael Lythcott attend to explain the new National Black Theater building project that will replace the former building on 5th Avenue between 125/126. This large new cultural center and residence will be a major landmark in our community. Learn more about the project, the theater,…

  • New Look For the National Black Theater

    New Look For the National Black Theater

    The National Black Theatre’s site will look very, very different by 2024 when the new building is expected to be finished. The NBT will occupy the first four floors of the building with over 200 residential units above. The architect, Frida Escobedo is working with Handel Architects who is behind the Sendero Verde project (currently…

  • Painting Mystery

    Painting Mystery

    Looking at this painting you’d never guess it was from the Harlem Renaissance artist/designer Aaron Douglas: This undated painting is said to be of Harlem, but Ephemeral New York, hasn’t been able to figure out where in Harlem (on the Hudson, or on the Harlem Rivers) it was based: At an unknown date, he also…

  • Frederick Douglass Circle

    Frederick Douglass Circle

    At the northwest corner of Central Park lies Frederick Douglass Circle, a memorial plaza featuring an eight-foot bronze sculpture of the famed abolitionist leader, women’s suffragist, editor, orator, author, and statesman. While Douglass is an integral figure in American history, it took time for the sculpture and accompanying renovation of the area to come about—a…

  • Open House NY Weekend: Grandscale Mural Project

    Open House NY Weekend: Grandscale Mural Project

    More than half a mile of murals, created by more than 100 artists: The Grandscale Mural Project is now part of Open House New York Weekend! Since its start nearly two decades ago, OHNY shines a spotlight on the places, people, projects and ideas that define New York and its future. This year’s event includes…

  • The Victoria Tower Residences

    The Victoria Tower Residences

    The Victoria Tower Residences on 125th street is starting to show apartments. The building is behind, yet incorporates the facade of the old Victoria Theater. The 27-story high rise shares its space with the Renaissance Marriot Hotel and is being marketed as a luxury building with a two-story lounge, multiple meeting rooms, a fitness center,…

  • Children Tested With Elevated Lead

    Children Tested With Elevated Lead

    How Calculated: Number of children less than 6 years old tested in a given year with blood lead levels of 15 mcg/dL or greater, divided by the number of children less than 6 years old who were tested for lead poisoning in a given year; expressed as cases per 1,000 tested. The numbers in this table…

  • Traveling While Black

    Traveling While Black

    Make sure to visit the Schomburg Library before the end of the year to see the fantastic exhibit “Traveling While Black”. The Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Kevin Young notes: Since the start of their experience in the Americas, Black people have been defined by travel, displacement, and resistance.  Whether in the…