Category: Harlemscape

  • Fair Share?

    Fair Share?

    I was recently able to get data on the homeless shelter populations by community board. Looking at the big picture (at the borough level) it is clear that one borough is not pulling its fair share: As many political observers have noted, Staten Island scares the bejeezus out of elected officials who are loathe to…

  • Black Women Entrepreneurs

    Black Women Entrepreneurs

    Businesses owned by Black women are growing at six times the national average. These women-owned businesses currently generate $51.4 billion in total revenues and employ more than 375,000 people according to Donna Walker-Kuhne: https://walkercommunicationsgroup.com/ Whose blog introduced me to the film She Did That which highlights Black women entrepreneurs. HNBA’s very own LaShawn Henry recently…

  • Museum of Civil Rights in Harlem

    Museum of Civil Rights in Harlem

    (from Urbanize: https://urbanize.city/nyc/post/revealed-one45-museum-civil-rights-harlem-designed-shop-architects) One45 and Shop Architects are proposing a nearly one-million square foot mixed-use development proposed for West Harlem on a portion of a block bounded by West 144th and 145th Street, Lenox Avenue, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. A draft scope of work submitted to the city reveals two new towers that would rise about 360 feet…

  • Black Baseball

    Untapped Cities has a great article on Black baseball teams, stadiums, and history: https://untappedcities.com/2021/02/18/black-baseball-sites-nyc/ The image (above) of The Lincoln Giants is not only a powerful photograph of athletic confidence and poise, it also shows a team that played here, in Harlem. In New York, the Lincoln Giants (1911-30), became a barnstorming juggernaut, going 108-12…

  • HBCU College Fair

    HBCU College Fair

    The NYPD and the 28th Precinct is inviting you to their 1st HBCU College Fair that will take place on June 5th, 2021 from 1200-1600 hrs. It will take place in the rear of the 28th precinct 2271 8th Avenue (St. Nicholas btw W 122st & W 123rd St). Please share with any youth you…

  • East River Plaza

    East River Plaza

    Most Harlem residents have visited East River Plaza (Target, Costco, Aldi, etc.) at 117th street and Harlem River Drive at least once over the years. The site – owned by Brookfield Properties – was once a wire factory that made springs, musical wires (think pianos), and industrial and commercial wires of every sort. I recently…

  • Summer Youth!

    Wanted to let you know we’ve got a summer youth program we’re running through WHDC this summer, and applications close end of day Monday. If you know of any teens/ parents of teens in West Harlem (CD9) looking for a summer opportunity (with a stipend for all who completer the program), you can share the…

  • Lost Dog in Haarlem

    Lost Dog in Haarlem

    In 1666, a white dog with a blind red eye was reported lost in Rotterdam. His owner placed an announcement in the “Oprechte Haerlemse Courant” offering a reward for returning the dog. This is one of the first, published lost dog announcements ever recorded. Oh, and NYC is How Much of America? If you take…

  • Dutch New Haarlem

    Dutch New Haarlem

    A 19th century sketch map of the Dutch colonial settlement of New Haarlem shows a number of interesting features. Notice how the streets are oriented to true north/south, not on a ‘Manhattan-esque’ angle as they are now (based on The Commissioner’s Plan). Also, New Haarlem was centered around 122 and 2nd Avenue, not west along…

  • Numbers of Opioid Commuters

    The map below shows not only which zip codes are the home zip codes of men and women who commute into Harlem and East Harlem for opioid treatment, but the numbers of them. The darker the green, the more residents of that zip code commute into our community (typically daily) for their treatment. Hover over…

  • Got the Itch?

    Got the Itch?

    Got the itch to do some spring cleaning? Then meet up with Uptown Grand Central this weekend to spring clean on a massive scale. This Saturday, April 10, marks the kick-off of Uptown’s spring cleaning season, with the first of our warm-weather community clean-ups along the East 125th Street corridor. We’re glad to be doing it in partnership with the Sanitation…

  • Harlem Supertall

    Harlem Supertall

    Imagine if Harlem had supertalls, the way that 57th Street has. The view, for example, for those who could afford it, would be amazing: For more on tall, tall, tall buildings, check out the Museum of the Skyscraper: https://old.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/permanent.htm down in Battery Park. The exhibit on building height, contextualizes NYC in the context of ambitious…