Category: Culture
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Risk of Crime
(The risk of crime being indicated by red on the map below) The map of white-collar crime is a telling one. Most of the criminals commit their crime in midtown or the financial district. Harlem has a relatively low crime rate by this measure. To explore where you are most at risk for this form…
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Mosaics
When you think of mosaics and ecclesiastical architecture, Harlem does not come to mind. However, the Shiloh Baptist Church at 131st and Adam Clayton Powell has a remarkable, 3 story high external mosaic on its facade. Note the hair styles of the people looking up to the central cross. And those turned away in shame:…
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Infant Deaths
How Calculated: Number of deaths occurring at less than 1 year of age in an area, divided by the number of live births among resident mothers of the area; expressed as cases per 1,000 live births. Infant deaths are restricted to those that can be linked to a birth certificate of a NYC resident mother…
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Dawoud Bey at The Whitney Museum
Dawoud Bey is one of the most innovative and influential photographers of his generation. He has spent more than four decades photographing underrepresented subjects and fostering a dialogue that addresses African American history and contemporary society and politics. Dawoud Bey: An American Project is at the Whitney Museum of American Art until 3 October and features a…
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The top three tips for ranked choice voting are…
Vote for your genuine favorites, in your order of preference. Don’t try to game the system and guess who has the best chance. Just vote for whom you like in the order that you like them. There’s no risk of losing your vote, because if your favorite is knocked out, your vote will go to…
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Kente Royal Gallery
Make sure to take a moment to visit the Kente Royal Gallery on ACP at 139 to see Elan Cadiz’s work on Scaffold: The Equality of Treatment: https://www.kenteroyalgallery.com/gallery The current exhibit there from Scaffold: Equity of Treatment 2020 – ongoing Scaffold: Equity of Treatment is about the importance of self-reflection and preservation and how these…
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Summer of Soul is Here!
On Juneteenth, in Marcus Garvey Park! SUMMER OF SOUL (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Screening: SUMMER OF SOUL (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – City Parks Foundation SCREENING: SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) Presented by Target and In Association with NYC Parks’ Historic…
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Pet Friendly?
Localize looked at the data for pet friendly rental listings and came up with this: Top pet-friendly Manhattan neighborhoods Morningside Heights: 98% Upper West Side: 84% Greenwich Village: 83% Washington Heights: 80% East Harlem: 79% While New Yorkers love their pets, many property managers don’t share the sentiment. The following neighborhoods are more challenging to…
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Black Wall Street Festival
3 short plays in Harlem’s first annual Black Wall Street (theater) Festival: Celebrate a Black-Owned Harlem Gay Bar with Poster House In honor of Pride month, Poster House is thrilled to partner with Alibi Lounge in Harlem, one of the last Black-owned gay bars in NYC, for an evening of cocktails & design activities that are sure…
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Hispanic/Black/White/Asian
One of our neighbors took data derived from the census.gov 5-year American Community Survey data year ending 2013 and created 4 choropleth maps for Manhattan. Taking a look, can you tell which one represents the density of Black, White, Hispanic, or Asian Manhattanites? Although the map designer did note that some of the data is clearly ‘off’…
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A Lighthouse in East Harlem?
East Harlem is a neighborhood that never ceases to surprise. While most New Yorkers know of the The Little Red Lighthouse (and the big grey bridge) up in Washington Heights, the lighthouse pictured above gets much less (media) attention. The metal lighthouse is 1/2 mile from the Harlem River and rather than warn people to…
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Register To Vote!
The deadline to register to vote is Friday, May 28 and early voting begins on Saturday, June 12. The deadline to request an absentee ballot is June 15. Free Concerts in Marcus Garvey Park this Weekend National Black Theatre is partnering with the New York Philharmonic to bring NY Phil Bandwagon 2 to Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem!…
