Category: Food
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Karaoke at The Corner Lounge
Romeo the owner of a new lounge/restaurant is hosting a Karaoke night tonight at 8:00 PM Bring your own bottle (wine and beer only) and they’ll have excellent food at reasonable prices. Get there early if you want to get a spot – 130th and Madison. See their website and menu, here: https://www.thecornerloungeny.com/ Vaccine Available…
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Uptown Grand Central, Again!
If you’ve been on East 125th Street recently, you’ve probably noticed that Uptown Grand Central has again restarted their amazing mural project on the otherwise, monotonous green construction hoarding. The UGC project has grown from 50 artists in 2019 who enlivened the area around the Metro-North station at 125/Park. This year, is inviting up to…
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Risk of Crime
(The risk of crime being indicated by red on the map below) The map of white-collar crime is a telling one. Most of the criminals commit their crime in midtown or the financial district. Harlem has a relatively low crime rate by this measure. To explore where you are most at risk for this form…
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Dawoud Bey at The Whitney Museum
Dawoud Bey is one of the most innovative and influential photographers of his generation. He has spent more than four decades photographing underrepresented subjects and fostering a dialogue that addresses African American history and contemporary society and politics. Dawoud Bey: An American Project is at the Whitney Museum of American Art until 3 October and features a…
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In-Person, Open Mic, Candidates Forums
NYC CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 9 CANDIDATES DEBATE When: Saturday, June 12, 2021 Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Where: NYC Madison Square Boys & Girls Club (155 St. & Bradhurst Ave.) 250 Bradhurst Avenue …
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BLM+COVID-19 in 2020
The Museum of the City of New York has a new exhibit about the New York response/experience of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protests. This timeline is worth watching and remembering just how fraught 2020 was (oh, and it had, perhaps, the most consequential presidential election in our lifetime…?). To order tickets to the…
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A Literary Mayoral Candidate
As most New Yorkers know by now, there are far, far too many people running for Mayor of NYC. All this, plus Ranked Choice Voting, is making for a confusing primary this coming June. Interestingly, one of the candidates has a book credit to his name. A number of years ago, while Manhattan’s Borough President,…
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Coal
In the 19th and early 20th century coal usurped wood as the most common heat source in New York City. The environmental and health costs of millions of homes heating with coal were enormous, and an army of coal merchants and their employees had to get coal to homes come rain, shine, or snow. To…
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Housing Units in New Buildings Since 2010
Source: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf Harlem’s Jewish Past The Jewish presence in Harlem before The Depression has given us a number of landmarked structures that have (often) since been converted into churches. One of the most elegant of these buildings is, of course, the Mount Olivet Baptist Church which was once Temple Israel. But Jewish Harlem had more…
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International Women’s Day Petition
Get Ready! International Women’s Day (March 8) will be here before we know it! What better way to celebrate and honor the women in your life than to make International Women’s Day a New York State holiday! The Red Carpet for Justice Coalition needs your help in the campaign to get the New York State Legislature to adopt…
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Harlem Eldorado
The classic Central Park West, art deco, dual tower apartment building known as The Eldorado (between West 90th and 91st Streets), has an interesting link to Harlem. The Eldorado’s current tenants include many names that you likely recognize: Alec Baldwin, Faye Dunaway, Moby, Garrison Keillor, Tuesday Weld, Bruce Willis, Ron Howard, Bono, Carrie Fisher and Michael J. Fox. What you may not know is that…
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Malcolm X
The story of Malcolm X is, of course, profoundly intertwined with that of Harlem. As a leading figure in Harlem’s radical scene it may seem incongruous that he was appointed to the 28th Precinct’s Community Council to serve as a community liaison. The chairman of the 28th Precinct’s Community Council was James Hicks the influential…
