Category: Harlemscape
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After-School Job Training and Pay for High School Students
Get paid up to $1000 for an after school training in construction management Learn about how to bid for projects and manage projects using industry software Training 6 months of classroom and field training for 2-3 hours twice a week Internships A 3 month paid internship with a real estate firm in NYC Must be…
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Testing Sites
Harlem River Houses Because Harlem River Houses has been designated a historic site, the Historic Districts Council has weighed in on a renovation plan for the grounds of this NYCHA property. What does the HDC do? Well…The Historic Districts Council (HDC) reviews every public proposal affecting New York City’s landmarks and historic districts and provides…
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Even Bigger
Fast Company is reporting that the urban critters we see (yes, a euphemism for rats) are getting bigger. So it’s not your imagination: Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History are expressing surprise at the results of a new study showing that urban mammals are growing. A quartet of scientists analyzed over 140,000 measurements…
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Worst Landlords
The Office of the Public Advocate’s Worst Landlord Watchlist is an information-sharing tool that enables tenants, public officials, advocates, and other concerned individuals to identify which residential property owners consistently flout City laws intended to protect the rights and safety of tenants. The vast majority of this list of infamy are in Central Harlem. Not…
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East 129th Street Renamed: Ann Petry Place
After years of work, petitioning, and navigating bureaucratic morass, the renaming of East 129th Street has finally been approved. East 129th Street (at 5th Avenue) will be renamed Ann Petry Place. Ann Petry was a celebrated Black author whose novel, The Street, became the first novel by a Black woman to sell over a million…
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Durst Sues the MTA
If you’ve ever wondered about those vacant lots, south of 125th Street, on both sides of Park Avenue that Uptown Grand Central works so hard to beautify, Durst Organization owns them. According to The Real Deal, Durst is suing the MTA for stonewalling and failing to clarify what is required (or not) to develop the…
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Cafe Ollin
Cafe Ollin, one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, has opened an annex on 2nd Avenue. While the standout item at the 339 E 108th St, New York, NY 10029 location is the massive cemitas, the annex (on 2nd Ave, between 108/109 Streets) is focused on smaller fare and desserts in particular. (212) 828-3644 cafeollin@gmail.com https://www.nycgo.com/restaurants/ollin/…
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2020 Census Data on White New Yorkers
A view of Zip Code 10035 from the 2020 Census. You can see that over the last 30 years, the percentage of white residents went up from 1% to 10%. In this map of northern Manhattan (above) you can see the grayer areas where the percentage of white New Yorkers went down, and the pink…
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Studio Museum of Harlem Raises
The Studio Museum in Harlem on West 125th Street, across from the Adam Clayton Powell state office building, is currently a hole in the ground. For over a year now, the site of the museum has been silent as fundraising has been going on behind the scenes. And, that fundraising, has been extremely successful. Raising…
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Black Cowboys
East Harlem has a riding center on Randall’s Island that is managed by a storied Black Cowboy. Although more prominent in the South, there is a small but longstanding group of Black cowboys in NYC who have migrated from places like Texas, Virginia and Mississippi. Dr. George E. Blair—a 90-year-old descendant of the buffalo soldiers—who…
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155th Street Bridge
In the image below it’s hard to imagine that this bucolic scene is looking at what will become the 155th Street bridge between Harlem and Yankee’s Stadium. Note that the bridge in the background is the Croton aqueduct bridge – High Bridge – with it’s full complement of masonry arches (the central core of which,…
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Art in Our Midst
The artist Allison Saar was commissioned to enliven the 125th Street Metro-North platform in 2018 and her subtle glasswork has delighted me since. The stained glass that encompasses the waiting rooms on the platform, harkens back to the jazz scene in Harlem. Even the title of the piece “copacetic” – a Jazz term from the…
