Category: Harlemscape
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Harlem FBI
eBay has an FBI Harlem division pin, up for sale: For details on this jazz and nightclub-themed pin, see this link. Free COVID Test Kits for Home Pick up free COVID test kits for you and your family. Details and locations here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/coronavirus/get-tested/covid-19-testing.page The site also lists free testing – New York City continues to…
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Redlining and Environmental Justice
Camellia Burris ceb2252@columbia.edu who attended Tuesday’s HNBA meeting from Columbia University wants to speak to her about an environmental justice project. Camillia is investigating the link between redlining and global warming —more specifically, how racist disinvestment in Harlem has led to some of its neighborhoods experiencing hotter temperatures than areas in the city that were…
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HNBA Monthly Meeting Tonight at 7 PM
Join the Commanding Officer Chris Henning of the 25th Precinct next Tuesday at 7, to hear more about (and ask questions concerning), public safety issues in our community. In addition to CO Henning, we will be joined by Marissa Yanni from DSNY. She’ll be answering questions about composting, pickup of corner trash bins, street cleaning, and…
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New York, Stripped Bare
If you’ve ever wondered what NYC would look like, if stripped of all the buildings, here’s the map: Note how Harlem is mostly in the 5′ – 45′ above sea level range, except for Morningside Heights and St. Nicholas Park and the City College campus area: And that little dot in the middle of the…
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Harlem Creek
Before the building boom in the 2nd half of the 19th century, what we call Central Harlem was farmland where people raised cash crops to sell 7 miles south in New York City. It was sleepy, undeveloped and could easily pass for rural New England today: This 1870 photo is looking northwest from what’s left…
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Sidewalks by Neighborhood
Sidewalks are a critical component of New York City residents’ commute. Ample sidewalks in neighborhoods are important for commuting, businesses, and physical activity. Greater sidewalk area facilitates safer pedestrian traffic that, in turn, attracts businesses and fosters community. “Sidewalk area” measures the percent of a neighborhood that is covered by sidewalk area. About the Measure…
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HNBA Meeting Next Tuesday (April 12, at 7 PM)
Join the Commanding Officer Chris Henning of the 25th Precinct next Tuesday at 7, to hear more about (and ask questions concerning), public safety issues in our community. In addition to CO Henning, we will be joined by Marissa Yanni from DSNY. She’ll be answering questions about composting, pickup of corner trash bins, street cleaning, and…
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Spring Is Coming – Volunteer for a Clean-up
Simone Marques writes (and you can see our recent HNBA guest, Wilfredo Lopez who is running for New York State Assembly in the photos): Hello dear Earth keepers!I hope you had a beautiful winter! Here, I’ve been doing lots of winter sowing… Yes, no reason to stop gardening during the winter if you can create…
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Harlem Canvas for Change
HARLEM CANVAS FOR CHANGEBRINGING ART DOORS TO YOU ART DOORS is a project where the 125th Street BID worked with property owners to allow artwork to be created by the community on the outside of the doors that they use to receive their freight. Often these doors become eyesores as they are set back from…
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Undertaker on 116th Street
In this image from 1914, a Hungarian undertaker served Harlem’s Hungarian community with funeral services. Winter & Reich (located at 30 West 116th Street) was a team of Hungarian undertakers who like most of their competitors offered the full package for funerals: a chapel, a notary, automobile or coach services, connections to cemeteries citywide, and…
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The Harlem Dispensary
In the early 19th century, a kind of health clinic – the Harlem Dispensary – was located on Fourth (or Park) Avenue between 124th and 125th Streets. You can read more about the make-up of the board who ran this medical facility in what was a rural village well outside the City of New York,…
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123 and Broadway
Looking at the photo above it’s hard to imagine that this is Harlem – 123rd Street and Broadway – even if it was taken in 1895. The photo was taken by Robert Bracklow (1849-1919) and shows street car tracks (look in the bottom left) which means that this would be Broadway, vs. the street running…
