Category: Harlemscape
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Hotels
Given that the Victoria project is wrapping up and about to bring a new hotel to Harlem, I thought I’d present a map of hotels in New York City. As you can imagine, Midtown is insanely dense: And while zooming into our neighborhood appears to indicate that we have a handful of hotels in our…
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Landmark East Harlem Highlights the East 111th Street Firestation
Photo of 242 E 111th Street – Engine Company 91 & Ladder Company 43 – by Matthias Helfen, 2021 Constructed from 1910-1912, this early 20th century Renaissance Revival firehouse is one of three similar structures built with a three-bay-wide, three-story design around the city. Of the three, one has already been designated by the Landmark Preservation…
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New Supermarket Opening
A new supermarket – Lidl – will open tomorrow at 8 AM. The first 100 customers will get gift cards ranging from $5-$100. The German discount grocer, which spent more than $5 million renovating the old Best Market thatclosed in that space in early 2021, will offer private label items (many organic and gluten-free), produce,…
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The Fire Factory
In New York, sidewalks and roads are constantly being torn up for subsurface repairs. The eventual patches are notoriously uneven in quality, and some (especially if wet concrete) are susceptible to the lure of graffiti and the chance for a name, drawing, or slogan to be there, on the ground, possibly for decades. While walking…
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Harlem Tax Protest
Oversaturation Tax ProtestJoin us on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 6:00pm for a 1-hour information session. Hello Harlem NeighborsHarlem has over 20% of NYC drug treatment and homeless shelters, the majority of which are concentrated within .4 miles on 125th street. This hyper-concentration of social services is having a deleterious effect on all who live, work, worship, and…
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New York City Remains a Transit (and Walking) City
Mode share varies greatly across the city, but New York continues to be a place of sustainable travel. With the exception of eastern Queens and Staten Island, the majority of trips taken by residents are made by a sustainable mode, such as walking, transit, or cycling. Sustainable mode share is as high as 85% in…
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The Spirit of Harlem
A 2005 mosaic that was on the North Fork Bank on West 125th Street was restored a couple of years ago after pubic outcry that it might be destroyed/hidden from view. You can see the mural on the north-west corner of 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Blvd. Become a Peer Advocate or Recovery Coach Here…
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Roy DeCarava
Born in Harlem in 1919, Roy DeCarava spent over six decades creating a rich body of work exploring the world around him – the everyday life of his beloved community in New York as well as the famous (and infamous) jazz musicians of the day. DeCarava took pains to place Black lives in the forefront…
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Shuttered Churches
For years, one of Harlem’s major flashpoints has been, and remains, the sale of Black churches. For many, the decline of a church and its sale, represents a dissolution of the Black presence in Harlem. For others, there is the loss of a cultural as well as religious space. Some focus on the material presence…
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The Oldest Manhole Cover in New York
It’s interesting that the oldest manhole cover in New York is located here, in Harlem. This remnant, with the date – 1866 – proudly cast, is from the original Croton Aqueduct system that brought much-needed fresh water to New York City in the 19th Century. The water, of course, began upstate and was brought down…
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Want Something Fixed?
REPORT AN INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUE IN OUR DISTRICT! This year Congressman Espaillat brought home nearly $8 billion from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to fund the Second Avenue Subway expansion, rebuild our city’s crumbling bridges, repave our decades-old roads, and so much more to make transit routes safer and more accessible for all New…
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2020 Census Data on Hispanic New Yorkers
A view of Zip Code 10035 from the 2020 Census. You can see that over the last 30 years, the percentage of Hispanics went down from 62% to 54% – still the largest group by far, in this zip code. In this map of northern Manhattan (above) you can see the grayer areas where the…
