Category: Culture
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Free String Jazz Concert, Saturday
The Harlem Rose Garden is delighted to offer you another performance in the garden this Saturday at 2PM. 6 E 129th St, New York, NY 10035 Judith Insell / Joe Fonda Duo – Dark Wood Explorations Project Chamber jazz dominated by the dark, rich tones of the viola and bass as played by the Judith Insell / Joe Fonda…
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Fantastic Exhibition at Claire Oliver Gallery
Make sure to head over to the Claire Oliver Gallery: https://www.claireoliver.com/ to see the amazing exhibit of Gio Swaby. Her work has been collected by major art institutions, and she is considered a rising art-world star. The Claire Oliver Gallery is located on Adam Clayton Powell, on the west side between 134/135.
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Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities at Parks
Happy Spring! These NYC Parks job opportunities (below) made possible by the recent federal reinvestment bill are open to people of all ages and require no experience. CAN YOU & YOUR ____BE LITTER AMBASSADORS FOR OUR HISTORIC HARLEM PARKS?(Jackie Robinson/Marcus Garvey/Morningside/St Nicholas)NYC Parks is looking for weekend volunteers we call * Litter Ambassadors * who can greet park…
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Mom Pics
Here’s something you can do beyond flowers for mom on mother’s day. The tech nonprofit Urban Archive this week launched “NY <3 Moms,” a new crowdsourced campaign in celebration of Mother’s Day. Urban Archive wants you to submit photos of your mom or caregiver. The caveat is that the photo has to be taken across the five…
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Summer of Soul
The teaser… And more on the whole process and project Why Questlove Change the Doc’s Title… Bystander Training Please join us and your neighbors for a very important bystander intervention training with The New York City Anti-Violence Project on Wednesday, May 19, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Click here to RSVP At this training, you will learn how to assess safety and…
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A Literary Mayoral Candidate
As most New Yorkers know by now, there are far, far too many people running for Mayor of NYC. All this, plus Ranked Choice Voting, is making for a confusing primary this coming June. Interestingly, one of the candidates has a book credit to his name. A number of years ago, while Manhattan’s Borough President,…
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Harlem Libraries
I thought it might be interesting to look at Harlem Libraries from a data perspective. Here is the data on which of the Harlem branches have the most holdings: Keen readers will, however, wonder if the size of holdings is somehow related to the nearby population. To do this, the population within 3/4 of a…
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Sims
Walking along 5th Avenue a while ago (notice the bare branches) I wanted to photograph the plywood shroud over the Dr. Sims sculpture location. You may recall that the sculpture celebrated a doctor who experimented on unanesthetized enslaved women, and after years of activism from many East Harlem women, the sculpture was removed and a…
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The Visitation
HERE PRESENTS WORLD PREMIERE OF THE VISITATION FROM STEPHANIE FLEISCHMANN, CHRISTINA CAMPANELLA, AND MALLORY CATLETT The Visitation, a sound walk, a haunting site-specific experience created by Stephanie Fleischmann, Christina Campanella, and Mallory Catlett. Inspired by the appearance of a one-antlered deer in Harlem in 2016, The Visitation takes the listener on an urban odyssey in…
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1930’s New York
A fascinating film that shows the West Side Highway and Riverside Drive, still under construction with freight trains next to cars. Also note the George Washington Bridge with only one level. Our view of pre-WW2 New York is so often a black and white view, that it’s somewhat disorienting to see the 1930s in color.…
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Harlem Supertall
Imagine if Harlem had supertalls, the way that 57th Street has. The view, for example, for those who could afford it, would be amazing: For more on tall, tall, tall buildings, check out the Museum of the Skyscraper: https://old.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/permanent.htm down in Battery Park. The exhibit on building height, contextualizes NYC in the context of ambitious…
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Harlem Community Art Center
It is hard to imagine the federal government funding an art center in Harlem today, but in the depression, the Democratic administration did just that. The Harlem Community Art Center was located in the building that now has Cohen Fashion Optical on the ground floor – at the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue.…
