Category: Culture
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Opioid Treatment Deserts
With new data from a recent FOIL request that was submitted to the NYS Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) we wanted to map the inverse of what people typically map – the absence of something. In particular, we were interested in learning which Community Districts in New York don’t have any OASAS…
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First Lady Michelle Obama Reflects on The 2020 and 2016 Elections
“This week, I’ve been reflecting a lot on where I was four years ago. Hillary Clinton had just been dealt a tough loss by a far closer margin than the one we’ve seen this year. I was hurt and disappointed—but the votes had been counted and Donald Trump had won. The American people had spoken.…
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Holiday Lights Tonight
The 125th Street BID will light up West 125th Street tonight. For more details on the festivities, see: https://harlemlightitup.vamonde.com/posts/event-details-turn-on-the-lights/10455/ Marilyn Monroe in Harlem From the website: https://www.popspotsnyc.com/iconic_new_york_city_film_locations/ What the site doesn’t say is that one of her husbands – Arthur Miller – lived almost where the camera is, taking the photo. Miller was born in…
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Mayor De Blasio Toured 125th Street
The mayor toured 125th Street on Sunday to see how dire our quality of life issues are. City Council Member Diana Ayala toured with the mayor. Note that on Sunday the methadone clinics are closed and most of their client base uses their ‘take home’ allocation that is given to them on Saturday. So the…
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HNBA Zoom Meeting on Tuesday (7pm)
On Tuesday at 7pm we’ll meet on Zoom to learn more about strategies for buying a home, refinancing, and more ways to build generational wealth in these complex times. We will also have a candidate for Manhattan DA – Tali Farhadian Weinstein – join us to talk about how she wants to reform the DA’s…
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Aaron Douglas
The esteemed Harlem Renaissance painter Aaron Douglas has two of his amazing works up at the Whitney Museum. These large 5′ square works are signature examples of his mature style – one that you might recognize if you visit the Schomburg which owns a number of his pieces. To learn more about Aaron Douglas, see:…
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HNBA Meeting on Tuesday, November 10th
HPD has a new report out on housing in New York. One of the issues it addresses is homeownership by Black New Yorkers. On Tuesday at 7:00 PM, the November HNBA meeting will have representatives from Chase Bank discuss strategies for applying for a first-time mortgage, refinancing, and a number of strategies for building your…
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100-Year-Old Harlem Woman Casts Ballot
Dr. Thelma Davidson Adair is 100-years-old and has mobility issues but inside the Jackie Robinson Education Complex, Dr. Adair got right to it. With the help of her son Robert, she checked in and she voted. Dr. Thelma Davidson Adair has lived through many elections. She was born a century ago during a pandemic, and…
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Worrisome Harlem COVID Trends – Wear a Mask!
In East Harlem’s 10035 ZIP code, the positivity rate more than quadrupled from 0.37 to 1.53, and it more than doubled in Central Harlem’s 10030. Here is the four-week testing data through Oct. 24 for the eight ZIP codes covering Harlem: 10026 – Central Harlem (South): 38 positive cases, 1 death, 1.01 percent positivity 10027 –…
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James E. Hinton – Recording Black Activism
The New Yorker has an amazing video of work by the photographer James E. Hinton who made his name memorializing some of the most prominent figures of the civil-rights era. Hinton photographed not only Black leaders of the time (athletes, artists, politicians, thinkers, musicians – including Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, Mahalia…
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A Walk Through Harlem, New York’s Most Storied Neighborhood
The New York Times has a wonderful (virtual) walking and talking chat with the architect David Adjaye about Hotel Theresa, Marcus Garvey Park, the home of Langston Hughes, the Y.M.C.A. and other landmarks. A highly recommended, architectural focused stroll: The NYPD Wants Your Opinions The NYPD has come up with a detailed 18 question survey…
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Vote for Love
Census Data from 1661: Multicultural and Multilinguistic Dutch New Haarlem The first European colonists to arrive and settle in Harlem were strikingly diverse. The Dutch West Indies company that settled the village that would become New York City, focused on the robust accumulation of wealth as a primary objective and not on a monocultural populace.…