Category: Events
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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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Early Voting Hours Extended for NYC
The historic voting numbers have led to changes in voting hours this weekend. But… Don’t wait for an extension. Make a plan. Get on line. Vote. Remember, you’ve been waiting for this for 4 years. Don’t let it slip by. The New York City Board of Elections’ commissioners on Tuesday voted to extend early voting…
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The Mail
Harlem has had a mail system since 1673. In order for mail to travel, however, the road to Harlem to New York and beyond had to be finished, or at least made usable. Eventually, a monthly mail between New York and Boston was officially announced and the earliest letters set out on the first of…
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Early Voting Sites Are Open!
Vote in person, or simply drop off your absentee ballot. Early Voting New Yorkers can vote early for the November 3, 2020 general election. Early voting starts on October 24, and runs until November 1, 2020. Early Voting Information Saturday, October 24, 2020 10 AM to 4 PM Sunday, October 25, 2020 10 AM to…
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An Address to You from The First Lady
Michelle Obama, First Lady of The United States of America: An American Street Mural in Harlem Harlem Park to Park – https://harlemparktopark.org/ – has a great teaser video out on the project to create the Black Lives Matter mural on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd this past summer. The plan is to expand the project…
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Samuel L. Jackson
To Find Your Early Voting Location (You can begin to vote on Saturday) You can (early) vote from Saturday, October 24th, to Sunday, November 1st. Note that your polling place will likely be different than the polling place you are used to. When I keyed in my address, this is what Vote.nyc told me was…
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Protest at The Lucern
You likely have heard how some residents of the Upper West Side raised a significant amount of money to fund a legal campaign to force homeless New Yorkers out of the Lucern Hotel which the DHS had contracted to house homeless New Yorkers so they wouldn’t be at risk of COVID in congregant shelters Today…
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Open Streets this weekend!
Hi neighbors, We’ve now got not just one but TWO Open Streets here in East Harlem! This weekend’s schedule: PLEASANT AVENUE AT 118TH: Saturday, October 17: COVID testing (rapid & antibody), plus flu shots (10 a.m.-5 p.m.) HIV and Hep-C screenings (10 a.m.-4 p.m.) “Pick your own” produce sales at Pleasant Village Community Garden (10…
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Cash for Guns, Today!
CASH FOR GUNS NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!! GUN BUY BACK will be held on Saturday, October 17th, 2020. Receive a $200 Pre-paid Card for Handguns and Assault Rifles Receive a $25 Pre-paid Card for Rifles, Shotguns, and Airguns Drop-Off Site: Bethel Gospel Assembly 1832 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10035 Hours Open: 10:00 A.M. to 4:00…
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Little Free Library
The Marcus Garvey Park Alliance does such a great job on so many different projects that it’s hard to highlight just one thing that stands out. Today, however, I had finished the book ‘The Wanderers’ by our neighbor Richard Price, and wanted to donate it. I took it to one of two small lending library…
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Mail In Your Vote and Honor Wesley A. Williams
The image (above) from The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is of Wesley A. Williams, a Black mail carrier/driver from 1915. Wesley was photographed under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, a notoriously racist American President who re:segregated the Post Office (from Vox – https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist): Easily the worst part of Wilson’s record as president…