Category: Harlemscape

  • Behind The Collier Brother’s Home

    You may recognize this vacant lot, church, and new rental building on W. 127, just behind the Collier Brother’s Park: The church ‘grew’. The two brownstones to the right were knocked down and the decades-old vacant lot is where the new rental is located. The Victorian framed home to the left in the photo below…

  • Mount Morris Park

    Here are 3 great photos of Marcus Garvey Park (formerly Mount Morris Park) from Columbia University’s collection of images. Below is a postcard from 1905 on the east side of the park, looking south towards where the basketball courts are today: Mount Morris Park was renamed in honor of Marcus Garvey in 1973, the park…

  • Steamship Fares

    To travel (before the age of rail and subways) to lower Manhattan (and Astoria), the Sylvian Steamship company ran for 8 cents (10 cents if purchased on board): Details of the fare: And, the complete card here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1800s-Timetable-Card-NYC-East-River-Sylvan-steamship-steamers-Harlem-Peck-Slip-/333161431240

  • National Urban League Plans to Use $188M For 125th Street Headquarters in Harlem

    The National Urban League is moving along with planning for a 17-story project that will include affordable rental housing, a civil rights museum, office space for community groups, retail space, and their headquarters/conference. The development, known as the Urban League Empowerment Center, will replace a low-slung retail building at 121 West 125th Street and a four-story parking garage…

  • MTA to Begin Overnight Bus Service, Again…

    Beginning Wednesday, August 5, MTA New York City Transit will provide new overnight bus service for customers between Manhattan and Brooklyn, and between Manhattan and the Bronx.The new M99 will operate run every 20 minutes from approximately 1AM and 6AM, between East New York in Brooklyn and the West 42nd Street pier in Manhattan. The new Bx99 will run every 20 minutes from…

  • Average Building Height

    Carto has a map of NYC building heights where red is tall, and blue is short: As you would expect, the lower half of Manhattan is mostly red, and Brooklyn is mostly blue. If you zoom in on our neighborhood, you’ll typically see a mix of red and blue, with the projects being almost purely…