Category: Food
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Community Clean-up on Saturday
Fish Fry! A staple of Harlem political organizing and fundraising is coming up on Saturday (after the clean-up noted above) with the Frederick E. Samuel Democratic Club. All welcome! Celebrate Hispanic Heritage at Boriken’s Community Health Fair
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Kristin Richardson Jordan to Meet With HNBA Tonight
HNBA will host Kristin Richardson Jordan tonight at 7:00 PM to talk about her historic upset of the Harlem machine, her plans for City Council District 9, the upcoming November election, and what she means by Radical Love for Harlem. To join in, reach out to Shawn, Hallia, Cecile, Saiyda, or Kat for the link,…
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Community Gardens
Localize has an analysis of which boroughs have the most proximate community gardens: https://www.localize.city/blog/5-green-spaces-that-capture-nyc-community-garden-history/ Their map shows how bereft of community gardens Queens is: Here in Harlem we are blessed with a number of community gardens in relative proximity to many of us. The garden I manage is an East Harlem jewel, Lydia’s Magic Garden:…
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Ice Cream in Harlem
Two Harlem ice cream spots won praise in Today.com for their amazing offerings: Sugar Hill Creamery: New York, NY Serving out of two locations in the Harlem area, Sugar Hill Creamery is a labor of love built by wife-and-husband team Petrushka Bazin Larsen and Nick Larsen. With combined backgrounds in arts, culture, fine dining and…
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Local Restaurants vs. Chains
A dataset of nearly 800,000 independent and chain restaurants for the contiguous U.S. was used to examine the total number of restaurants with the same name and created an average “chainness” score, which measures the likelihood of finding the same venues in other parts of the country. The paper that examined how “chainy” a community is, by…
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A Flag?
Seriously? Manhattan (as a borough), has a flag? It looks suspiciously like the NYC flag with the only difference being details on the circular seal. The Manhattan Latin motto is gone. The 1625 is replaced with two stars. In the end, it’s pretty underwhelming. Perhaps the confusion between the flags means that we’ve seen the…
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HNBA September Meeting on THURSDAY the 16th
Because of scheduling issues, the first HNBA meeting of the season will be held on Thursday, September 16th, at 7:00 PM. We’ve decided to continue to gather on Zoom at least until December because of the threat that the Delta Variant poses to our community. At our September 16th meeting, HNBA will host Kristin Richardson…
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CB11 Wants to Hear From You
Manhattan CB11 is seeking your input to help determine East Harlem’s greatest needs and budget priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. You can participate in the annual budget process by filling out the Public Input Survey today! We will be accepting responses through August 22, 2021. Access the survey here: https://forms.gle/qHEr3WvVrxcH2kNa6 For more information, please contact the community board office at(212)831-8929 or mn11@cb.nyc.gov. Compost Collection is…
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NBT Dedication
Barbara Ann Teer speaks about the inspiration of her sister in forming and developing the National Black Theater at this groundbreaking dedication clip (click on the chevron pointing right on the text, below) : And to hear more about the devistating fire that (in part) sparked the rebirth of the National Black Theater, see: Randall’s…
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Super Nice
Gothamist and Serious Eats had a wonderful piece on amazing dining in Harlem. East Harlem’s very own Super Nice cafe was deservedly mentioned: There are lots of great treats to be found in Harlem, whether for breakfast, afternoon snack, or dinner dessert, but the best doughnuts in this part of town right now definitely come…
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Tour The Storefront Academy Today
OPEN HOUSE Happening at Storefront Academy Charter School Harlem! Please join the Storefront Academy (now a charter school) in July or August on Thursdays from 9am-12pm to take a tour of their school! We want to share information about our amazing school with you and our Harlem Community! Now Enrolling Grades K-3! Corn? In East…
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Chicken Egg
When NYS’s OASAS agency oversaturates struggling communities with opioid treatment programs it justifies this by looking at addiction rates. What OASAS fails to acknowledge or admit to local community boards and politicians, is that they’ve already oversaturated struggling communities, and want to add more capacity to avoid the more difficult process of equitably locating programs…
