Category: Events

  • Summer of Soul, Tonight!

    Summer of Soul, Tonight!

    Head to the Harlem Rose Garden tonight at dusk for a screening of Summer of Soul. The Harlem Rose Garden (East 129th Street at 5th Avenue) is a gorgeous oasis and cultural hub for the community. Bring bug spray and get ready for one of the best films of the year. Tomorrow, also feel free…

  • City Aims To Spend $776 Million To Complete Manhattan Greenway

    City Aims To Spend $776 Million To Complete Manhattan Greenway

    Harlem would get two new connectors that would allow families, joggers, and cyclists to ride around Manhattan, traffic free. This is a huge project that involves years of engineering and environmental impact analysis, but it really could be a game-changer for enaging with the waterfront in a car-free environment. See the article below, for more:…

  • Asthma+Poverty

    Asthma+Poverty

    Throughout the city, neighborhoods with higher rates of poverty also experience higher rates of childhood asthma, which we can see from the rates of emergency department visits. On the scatter plot below, each dot represents one neighborhood. Its horizontal position represents the neighborhood’s poverty rate, and its vertical position represents its asthma rate. The pattern…

  • Community Board 11 Wants To Hear From You

    Community Board 11 Wants To Hear From You

    Click This Link to register: A Rare Cornerstone A rare Harlem cornerstone that not only has the year built, but also the name of the architect. Found on East 128th Street, at Madison, on the former ARC building.

  • A Great Day in Harlem

    A Great Day in Harlem

    Uptown Grand Central writes: Greetings, neighbors! I am writing to invite you to the co-naming the block of 126th Street between Madison & Fifth as “Art Kane: Harlem 1958 Place.” This is in celebration of the historic jazz photograph that is sometimes called “A Great Day In Harlem” — but is actually called “Harlem 1958”…

  • East Harlem Residents – Your Opinion Wanted One Week From Today

    East Harlem Residents – Your Opinion Wanted One Week From Today

    CB11 Budget Town Hall Wednesday, August 11, 2021 6:00p.m. – 8:00p.m.Register at https://bit.ly/CB11Budget Hear from your City & State representatives about the budget process and share your ideas for East Harlem’s future! CB11 is seeking input from our constituents about East Harlem’s greatest needs. Following an informational presentation about the City and State budget from…

  • Affordable Housing at Riverton Square

    The affordable housing lottery has launched for Riverton Square, five 13-story residential buildings at 45 East 135th Street and 2156, 2181, 2171, and 2225 Madison Avenue in East Harlem, Manhattan. Overall, the Riverton Square complex consists of 1,229 units across 12 buildings with approximately 1,000 units designated as affordable housing. Available on NYC Housing Connect are…

  • Harlem Hall of Fame

    Harlem Hall of Fame

    A BET production, The Harlem Hall of Fame will honor the legends and icons that have made significant contributions to Harlem’s iconic and historic reputation around the globe. The Hall of Fame is set to make its inaugural debut in August 2021, with a stellar line-up of inductees, via a multimedia execution that will include…

  • Ballroom Basix

    My name is Rikki Ziegelman and I am the Media Manager for an education-based arts-initiative non-profit organization called BALLROOM BASIX. Our organization provides school children physical, social, emotional and cultural engagement through the etiquette and education of non-competitive Ballroom, Latin & Line dancing. Our headquarters are also, conveniently, in East Harlem! Next Monday (August 2nd),…

  • How Long Does It Take To Build In NYC?

    How Long Does It Take To Build In NYC?

    Between 2016 and this year, it took an average of 545 business days, or roughly two calendar years, for a developer to go from initially filing a project proposal with the DOB to receiving the first certificate of occupancy, the department said. The process took the longest time in Manhattan, about three years, and the…

  • It’s Not My Trash, But It’s My Planet

    It’s Not My Trash, But It’s My Planet

    If you are around this week, on Saturday we are caring for our street trees on 103rd St (near the subway station on Lexington Ave) and supporting a new local business. Our friends from Mojo Desserts are opening a Brazilian-Belgian bar right next to Mojo! We’ll head to Bar Goyana after our clean up. For the grand…

  • National Night Out

    National Night Out

    The 25th Precinct Community Council is looking for organizations to staff a table at National Night Out on August 3rd. If you would be interested in staffing a table for HNBA, let us know: Here is the letter from the 25th Precinct Community Council: Good Evening,As you know National Night Out is an annual event…