Category: Harlemscape
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Ask The 2021 Mayoral Candidates Your Questions
While the most important election of our lifetime is now only 47 days away, our city will also be reshaped by the 2021 elections which include electing a new mayor. The City (an online NYC new organization) is soliciting your questions for mayoral hopefuls. Please take a moment and go to: https://www.thecity.nyc/politics/2020/9/14/21437265/ask-the-next-mayor-new-york-city-2021-city-hall and (among other things)…
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Up Third
If you’ve looked up 3rd Avenue in the last year, you’ve likely seen the construction of 3 large towers just over the Harlem River in the Bronx. Two of the 3 towers (the two rendered above) are rentals called ‘The Arches’ and are now starting leasing. For those of you curious as to what a…
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New BLM Mural for Lydia’s Magic Garden
Lydia’s Magic Garden (Park Avenue, east side, between 117/118th Streets has a new crocheted mural: Project as described by one of the children (Sulaf): “Our crochet class started in the middle of the nation’s grieving for George Floyd and other innocent victims of racially charged police murders. So when we were deciding what project we…
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Tiny Gallery Opening – Odetta Gallery
A fascinating gallery has an exhibit on view: Of tiny sculptures in a miniature display – Odetta Petite: ODETTA, in response to the current paradigm, is excited to introduce a new exhibition space, ODETTA Petite. Replicating the gallery’s original Bushwick venue, Ellen Hackl Fagan and Seth Callander have created a scaled-down space to enable its artists to return to gallery exhibitions. The new space…
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Storefront Academy and the 40’s
The Storefront Academy The storied Storefront Academy https://www.storefrontacademycs.org/ has changed to a Charter School and is now struggling to come online in the COVID-19 era. The Children’s Storefront was a tuition-free private school in Harlem, founded in 1966 by the poet Ned O’Gorman. It was the subject of a 1988 documentary film, The Children’s Storefront, nominated for an Academy Award for Best…
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Fred R. Moore
The Fred R. Moore School between 5th and Madison, and 130th and 131st, is restrained mid-century gem of New York City’s public architecture. This school and the associated playground take up a whole city block: https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M133 When you walk on Madison between 131st and 130th, just inside the playground’s gates, you’ll see a wonderful bas…
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Help Our Trees
As the recent hurricane showed, our street trees take a huge beating in extraordinary events like Isaias and in the world of day-to-day life on the streets of New York. You may not know this but the moment a tree is planted in the sidewalk, the open patch of dirt and anything contained in it…
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Triborough
As a New Yorker who first arrived in 1993, I still think of the bridge (or the bridges) as the Triboro, or Triborough. RFK is in my mind, but Triboro always comes out first. I came across this great image of the Triboro’s span raising (the part that goes over the Harlem river to connect…
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Parents and Children
Over the last 5 years, The Harlem Neighborhood Block Association has taken on a number of issues (large and small) to improve the quality of life for residents in the East Harlem Triangle. One small, but significant victory was the result of collaboration with neighborhood parents and schools to persuade the Department of Education to…
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A New Pitch to Lease The Corn Exchange Building
For years now the gorgeously renovated Corn Exchange Building at Park/125 has been sitting empty (except, of course, for the amazing Ginjan Cafe! which occupies part of the street-level corner). Recently, a new pitch is being made (presumably to commuters on Metro-North trains coming into the city) as seen in the new ad – high…
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125th and Lexington
This photo of 125th Street at Lexington (looking south – the cut-off buildings to the left are where the Pathmark site is): is from 1912. A. Schulte is now a dollar pizza. Here is a fuller image of the A. Schulte business:
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Skyrise for Harlem
It looks like a collection of nuclear cooling towers, suddenly plopped into Harlem, but June Jordan’s plan for a redevelopment of Harlem in the early 1960s was for a collection of conical high rises: Esquire Magazine had the (above layout) which was recently featured in an article in The New Yorker. The conical towers would…