Category: Culture
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Recycle Old Paint
The NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is collaborating with PaintCare, a nonprofit stewardship program providing sites for households and businesses to recycle unwanted paint, stain, and varnish all year round. Find a drop-off site near you at paintcare.org/drop-off-sites. There’s no charge to drop off accepted products at PaintCare’s participating sites! The fee you paid at the time…
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Uptown Stripdown
Burlesque comes to Harlem: Kick back and enjoy the summertime and the party stays jumping!The Nova Experiment presents Uptown Stripdown, Harlem’s only Burlesque Show with a radiant cast of all Black performers with sensual and exciting acts that will get you feeling the summer heat. Purchase your tickets for front-row seating and automatic entry into…
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Dawoud Bey in Seattle
The photographer Dawoud Bey was recently featured in a photo exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. One of his works on display is likely familiar to most Harlem residents: The work is centered on a vacant lot on 125th Street and 5th Avenue (south-east corner) that has been vacant for decades now. As you can…
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Randall’s, Ward’s, and Sunken
In 1885, there was Randall’s Island, Ward’s Island, and Sunken Medows, all separated by channels joining the Halrem and East Rivers with Hell Gate and Long Island Sound: The map, for sale on Ebay, shows fascinating details on buildings, orchards, groves, and marshes that are no more: Midnight In Harlem Another white rock group with…
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Church to Church+Hotel
74 West 126th Street (just behind Red Rooster) has been a Lutheran church since this part of Harlem was Scandinavian. Word is that the property has been reimagined (including the vacant lot), and a hotel will be built above a new church. The church will have a brand-new sanctuary and two floors of space. The…
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Ginjan Cafe in Brooklyn
The New Yorker mentions East Harlem’s Ginjan Cafe has expanded to Brooklyn in an African food in Brooklyn review: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/west-african-suya-akara-and-more-in-brooklyn Half a mile north, at Ginjan Café (333 Nostrand Ave.; $10-$20), a new Bed-Stuy outpost of a Harlem spot opened by two Guinean brothers, you can further explore West African beverages, plus an astonishing array…
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Offices and Hotels
The map of office buildings (3 stories or more, tall) is fairly expected: There is a line up Broadway, an intermittent line along 116th Street, and a denser line along 125th street. (If you know the Bronx, you can likely identify “The Hub”, as well.) Below, zooming into Harlem to look at commercial buildings, you…
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Harlem Themed Casino
A 60-story resort called Harlem Nights is being proposed for Las Vegas in the neighborhood of Historic Westside. Shlomo Meiri, a self-described “crazy developer” based in Beverly Hills, California, owns the nearly 2-acre site and wants the project to act as a catalyst for other investment and development in the area, which he thinks has the…
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The Classical Theater of Harlem
American Theater interviewed Ty Jones the American Theater’s Artistic Director: What sets your theatre apart from others in your region? What essentially sets us apart is our mission. It is to maintain a professional theatre company dedicated to returning the classics to the stages of Harlem; to create employment and educational outreach opportunities in the…
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Vote Tomorrow and Change Harlem!
Tomorrow is your chance to change the direction of Harlem. Have things gotten better over the last two years? If not, here’s you’re chance to raise your voice for change! Harlem Records See See Rider And while this isn’t the song on the record pictured above, it’s wonderful song by Bea Booze who was born…
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Lincoln Houses To Be Built Soon After The War
In July 1945, as WWII was ending, The Crisis reported on a new development for the East Harlem Triangle – Lincoln Houses. To orient yourself in the (above) view, the detail below shows the Metro North bridge over the Harlem River. The view, therefore, is north-easterly. You can also note (below) that Lenox Terrace is…
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Photoville in St. Nicholas Park
Make sure to head over to St. Nicholas Park – St. Nicholas Ave. and 133rd Street – to see a fantastic display of very early photographs of Black Americans during and immediately after the Civil War. The display is hung on the basketball courts’ fencing, and faces St. Nicholas Avenue. All of the photographs are…
