Category: Harlemscape
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Neighborhood Safety Team Coming
ABC News is reporting that East Harlem will be getting a Neighborhood Street Team to address the uptick in violence that has occurred recently. The NYPD will deploy one of 5 more anti-gun teams to East Harlem’s 25th precinct after a particularly violent weekend where 29 people were shot on Friday through Sunday. That’s up…
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Hue Arts: The Brown Paper
Hue Arts has released a Brown Paper on the experiences and realities of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and all People of Color arts entities. The project seeks to reveal the value they bring to their communities and to the cultural ecosystem of New York City as a whole. Ensuring that arts…
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EH in PS1
The current show at MOMA’s PS1 – Greater New York – has a number of Harlem artists/images on display. One particularly great collection is a wall of photos from Hiram Maristany, who filmed the unrest and revolution in East Harlem during the Young Lords Era of 1969-70. Maristany was born in East Harlem and became…
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Just Looking Down
Walking past the Fred Moore School with it’s great (sanctioned) graffiti: I looked down and noticed, stuck in the concrete of a window well, a geodetic bench mark from the US Coast and Geodetic Survey: Locating a survey marker in a window well seemed a poor choice, given that the wall of the school restricted…
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Zero Vehicle Households
Zero-vehicle households are concentrated in Manhattan and southern parts of the Bronx. Outer borough households generally have more vehicles, a function of land use and density, non-vehicle transportation options, and income. The number of household vehicle registrations increased by 8.7% between 2010 and 2020, resulting in a very slight increase in the ratio of vehicle…
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Housing Inequality
Harlem’s rate of homeownership is strikingly low. A new choose your adventure video game attempts to explore why housing in the U.S. has not fairly delivered housing-derived middle-class lives to many Americans, particularly people of color. This game explodes the larger American myth that homeownership can be achieved by anyone through hard work and smart decision-making. The…
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William Backhouse Astor Jr.
Harlem’s Astor Row Namesake Willam Backhouse Astor Jr. lived from 1829 – 1892 and in our community, is best remembered as the person who developed Astor Row, AKA West 130th Street between 5th Avenue and Lenox. The south side of this block was developed by Astor as speculative townhouses – built when there was little…
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Sign of Spring, 2022
The Twelfth Ward Bank The problem with looking up at the architecture at the corner of Lex/125 is most people are so focused on navigating the street scene, that it’s rare when you feel confident enough in your path, to notice 100 year old faded signs. The building on the north-east corner of Lex/125 was…
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HNBA Meeting Tonight at 7:00
Tonight HNBA will have our new Community Affairs Officer [Troycarra Powers] from the 25th Precinct attend our HNBA meeting to answer any concerns you have about public safety and the rise in crime in our community. In addition, Tatiana from https://womenscja.org/ will be joining to talk about their effort to convert Lincoln Jail (on Central…
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2nd Avenue Subway
The MTA now hopes to break ground on (this iteration of the 2nd Avenue Subway) by the end of the year. Chuck Schumer – senator from New York – says: “Things never looked better for getting the Second Avenue subway to East Harlem.” In our neighborhood 71 percent of residents use public transit to get…
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CB11 Meeting Tomorrow at 6 PM
Please register for CB11’s Health and Human Services meeting on Monday, March 7th here: https://www.cb11m.org/pmcalendar/ The committee will be discussing Community Board 11’s resolution requesting a moratorium on the siting of any new drug rehabilitation, chemical dependency, or treatment centers within Community District 11 that they crafted last year, and proposing an extension before this…
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Eric Adams Visits Lex/125
https://fb.watch/bu98DNspEf/ A History of Methadone and Harlem Across New York City, a certain kind of medicine is administered not in a regular pharmacy or a doctor’s office, but in its own kind of space altogether. Most often, these are brick-and-mortar locations, clustered in lower-income communities of color; increasingly, such treatment sites are mobile and distributed. In…
