Category: Harlemscape
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Astor Row Building, Gone
Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) responded to concerns that a long abandoned building on Astor Row was about to collapse and knocked the building down. Future owners will be forced by landmarking to restore the front facade. Sadly, now, it’s a gaping hole in the streetscape. Untapped New York’s Secrets of Harlem
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Harlem Hospital Nursing Yearbook 1959
The Harlem Hospital School of Nursing closed in 1977 and the site is about to become a new public health lab: https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/harlem-gets-first-look-new-400m-public-health-lab A 1959 yearbook of the nursing school is currently for sale: https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM55457/african-american-nursing/city-of-new-york-harlem-hospital-h-h-s-n-1959-cover-title and is described as: Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing’s Class of 1959. This copy…
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Church at 129/Madison
If you’ve wondered what is going to happen to the church, school, and rectory at 129/Madison, October’s Land Use meeting for CB11 revealed some of the plans: Essentially the church and school have been leased to a charter school, and the rectory will be converted into a rental building. Capital Prep will take over the…
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NYC Kids Rise
The NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program provides families, schools, and communities with a way to work together to invest in and save for their children’s futures. It is a scholarship and savings program designed to make college and career training more accessible and achievable for public school students. It enables all of us…
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Let’s Work Towards Carbon Neutrality
NYC Accelerator is a free program through the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability committed to restoring NYC and its buildings. The Accelerator team experts work with building representatives to improve building’s energy and water efficiency through building upgrades which create healthier buildings, save owners and residents money on their utility bills, and improve local air quality. …
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Porgy and Bess
The Metropolitan Opera is pleased to offer a 15% discount on tickets to PORGY & BESS to Harlem residents. Please use the code GERSHWIN15 at check out. Tickets and information can be found here: https://www.metopera.org/season/2021-22-season/porgy-and-bess/ The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Don’t miss the return of the Met’s landmark staging of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, which won universal…
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Waiting to Open
A photograph from October 1977 recently came on Ebay. The scene is a corner of Lenox Avenue and 124th Street, where a line of men awaits entry into a liquor store. Here is the back of the print. The location is now the home of Harlem Shake. Note how the liquors sign on the corner…
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View the HNBA November Meeting
Our November 9th HNBA meeting is now available to view: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hw0239ynnvnoikt/HNBA%20Nov21.mp4?dl=0 Opioid Injection Site Opens on East 126th Street Mayor De Blasio promised to begin opening opioid injection sites where people can find a safe space to inject illegal drugs, and now his promise has been fulfilled in East Harlem. Corner Resources quietly opened a…
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HNBA November Meeting, Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7:00 PM
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 9th. at 7:00 PM HNBA will welcome Michael Lythcott attend to explain the new National Black Theater building project that will replace the former building on 5th Avenue between 125/126. This large new cultural center and residence will be a major landmark in our community. Learn more about the project, the theater,…
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Corn Exchange Building
Ephemeral New York has a great article out on how the Corn Exchange building (Park/125) – formerly the Mount Morris Bank – has looked in photos over the years. The Harlem Bank building (built in 1884, and now with Ginjan Cafe on the ground floor), was and is perfectly located for easy access to upstate…
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2020 Census Data on Diversity
New York is a highly segregated city, and so it is interesting to see where diversity is increasing (or decreasing) in Northern Manhattan: In this map of northern Manhattan (above) you can see that in most of the areas shown, the diversity has increased – with the glaring example of the South Bronx, and a…
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New Look For the National Black Theater
The National Black Theatre’s site will look very, very different by 2024 when the new building is expected to be finished. The NBT will occupy the first four floors of the building with over 200 residential units above. The architect, Frida Escobedo is working with Handel Architects who is behind the Sendero Verde project (currently…
