Category: Events
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Rally to Support Harlem’s Children
And Their Right to Attend Schools Free of Drug Activity – Saturday at 11:00 Mayor De Blasio placed the nations first opioid injection site directly across from a Harlem Pre-School with no community involvement. The block where this injection site has been located is already completely oversaturatated with men and women in methadone treatment, and…
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25th Precinct Community Meeting
The last 25th Precinct’s Community Council for the year will be held on: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at 6:00 PM Located at the 25th Precinct 120 East 119th Street, New York, NY 10035 This meeting maybe a little longer than usual as we will have a special guest presenter. We will also have treats again for…
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Cafe Ollin
Cafe Ollin, one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, has opened an annex on 2nd Avenue. While the standout item at the 339 E 108th St, New York, NY 10029 location is the massive cemitas, the annex (on 2nd Ave, between 108/109 Streets) is focused on smaller fare and desserts in particular. (212) 828-3644 cafeollin@gmail.com https://www.nycgo.com/restaurants/ollin/…
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2020 Census Data on White New Yorkers
A view of Zip Code 10035 from the 2020 Census. You can see that over the last 30 years, the percentage of white residents went up from 1% to 10%. In this map of northern Manhattan (above) you can see the grayer areas where the percentage of white New Yorkers went down, and the pink…
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De Blasio to Visit East Harlem Today at 10:00 AM
Back in 2018: De Blasio said the centers will be located inside current needle exchange facilities in Washington Heights, Midtown West, Longwood, and Park Slope. See: https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-plans-safe-injection-facilities-for-park-slope-washington-heights-midtown-and-longwood. But somehow Park Slope, and Midtown got dropped from the program, and once again, East Harlem was chosen. The Mayor will be at the East Harlem opioid injection site today…
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Mayor De Blasio to Visit 106 East 126th Street And Tour the New Opioid Injection Site
Tomorrow at 10:00 AM (but you know he’s never on time), Mayor De Blasio will visit the opioid injection site he approved for East Harlem in the waning days of his administration. Please feel free to join the mayor at the facility and express your thoughts on this new site. 106 East 126th Street.
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Studio Museum of Harlem Raises
The Studio Museum in Harlem on West 125th Street, across from the Adam Clayton Powell state office building, is currently a hole in the ground. For over a year now, the site of the museum has been silent as fundraising has been going on behind the scenes. And, that fundraising, has been extremely successful. Raising…
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Art in Our Midst
The artist Allison Saar was commissioned to enliven the 125th Street Metro-North platform in 2018 and her subtle glasswork has delighted me since. The stained glass that encompasses the waiting rooms on the platform, harkens back to the jazz scene in Harlem. Even the title of the piece “copacetic” – a Jazz term from the…
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Car-Free New York
The United States has 74,002 census tracts. Only 351 of those had 75% or more carfree households. A whopping 312 of the 351 carfree census tracts were in New York The distribution is as follows for 75% or more carfree households Other U.S. cities had only a scattering of tracts where carfree levels were as…
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Harlem Hospital Nursing Yearbook 1959
The Harlem Hospital School of Nursing closed in 1977 and the site is about to become a new public health lab: https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/harlem-gets-first-look-new-400m-public-health-lab A 1959 yearbook of the nursing school is currently for sale: https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM55457/african-american-nursing/city-of-new-york-harlem-hospital-h-h-s-n-1959-cover-title and is described as: Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing’s Class of 1959. This copy…
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Marcus Garvey Park Tree Lighting
December 8th, at 6:00 PM. 124th Street and 5th Avenue. Join the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance in the lighting of the holiday tree. Under the Stoops Along 5th Avenue, between 129/128th Streets, there are 3 brownstones in a row that still have grills that allow light into the under-the-stoop space. As a result, you can…
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Holiday Lights on The Harlem Meer
Celebrate the season at our Annual Holiday Lighting in Central Park. Meet Santa and friends, sing carols on the Plaza, watch an ice-carving demonstration and take part in other seasonal festivities. The event concludes with lighting a flotilla of trees on the Harlem Meer. In the meantime, check out our seasonal recipes and activities below…
