Category: Culture
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Register for the Candidate’s Forum Next Week
Join The Greater Harlem Coalition and MMPCIA at next week’s Harlem City Council Candidates’ Forum. The forum will begin at 7 PM on Thursday, April 27th. Harlem’s current City Councilmember declined to attend. If you have questions for the candidates, fill out this form after registering for the Zoom webinar. Claire Oliver Gallery Make sure…
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Compost Tour
Hey compost friends! I’m sharing an upcoming event on Thursday, April 20th in celebration of Earth day. Our event, Walk-N-Talk Compost Tours, will take folks on a walking tour of three community composting sites in West Harlem: Maggie’s Garden, Frank White Memorial Garden, and Jenny’s Garden. Tours will start at 11AM and 2PM. I thought…
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HNBA April Meeting Recording
If you missed the fascinating April 11th conversation on Black home ownership in New York City, here’s the recording: Topic: HNBA MeetingDate: Apr 11, 2023 06:51 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) View Detail Share You can copy the recording information below and share with othershttps://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/OJeDxYDKo4Bou8lTaHRomEVfQeNMwKb2hIsPY_ZwBXF14VWElLxnB2e-WscJxqUy.1uG8qEBSlCJIuAlAPasscode: 5P@$yEVm Housing Justice Town Hall, April 30th Barnard College – Undesigning the…
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Latino Theater Heritage
On April 20 (Thurs), The Harlem East Block Association will host Harlem’s own Award Winning Playwright Eugene Rodriguez to discuss his petition to create an El Barrio Theater District to spur economic development & to make use of East Harlem’s 4 beautiful public theaters. Join via http://shorturl.at/uOVYZ April Community Council Meeting – Wednesday 19th Community…
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HNBA Meeting, Tonight at 7:00 (Zoom)
Tonight at 7:00 PM, HNBA will have our April community meeting on Zoom. We’ve got two very interesting speakers on tap this month. First up will be Emily Chingay from Open Plans, a group that would like to help Harlem neighbors have more say in how their streets are used (playstreets for children, outdoor dining, beautification…
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1st Avenue 1910 – Little Italy
Back at the turn of the 20th Century, the eastern part of East Harlem was a sizable Italian enclave. This photo intrigued me with the location, 1st Avenue: In addition, one of the pushcarts – selling food, wares, clothing, etct. – had this address on it: And indeed, the photo was taken close to 1st…
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Sign The Petition!
The Greater Harlem Coalition has just launched a petition on Change.org: New York State’s Assembly and Senate Members should reject The Safer Consumption Act, bill s399/a338, unless the following 6 Safety Guardrails are added to the bill. Harlem’s supervised injection site is located two blocks away from 9 schools with +4250 students and nearly 4000…
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Where Life Begins At Midnight
Ebay has a rare photo souvenir from The Palm Club at 209 West 125th Street. The tagline is ‘Where life begins at midnight’: Note that in addition to “Our Own Evelyn Robinson” – the club’s house singer, a photographer is also mentioned (as is his studio at 10 Lenox Ave). 10 Lenox Ave. today is…
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Sign The Petition!
The Greater Harlem Coalition has just launched a petition on Change.org: New York State’s Assembly and Senate Members should reject The Safer Consumption Act, bill s399/a338, unless the following 6 Safety Guardrails are added to the bill. Harlem’s supervised injection site is located two blocks away from 9 schools with +4250 students and nearly 4000…
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Revisiting The 2020 Black Lives Matter Mural
The Next 60 Years for Sylvia’s Restaurant Sylvia’s Restaurant, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in August 2022, is a testament to the values instilled by the founder and matriarch, Sylvia Woods. She cultivated a strong community around her soul food restaurant in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood that has continued to thrive, even after her…
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MLB pitchers are busy training inside a Harlem storefront under an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese
This might be the best article heading of 2023. The article came out on ESPN, but Gothamist’s headline was what caught my eye. Here’s a teaser introduction: Adam Ottavino never expected The Lab to turn into this. The New York Mets reliever just wanted a place in the city to throw in the offseason, something that can be…
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Top 10 Lists From ChatGPT
We’ve all seen those annoying websites with pop-up ads as we travel around the web that feature “Top 7 ways to…” Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being employed by these click-bait sites in order to create ‘content’ and drive up their ad revenue. Here is an example of the content that was generated titled: And…
