Category: History
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Who Spent What
Patch has a great article on who spent what in Harlem election contests: https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/heres-how-much-money-poured-harlem-elections 33 Harlem It’s hard to believe that there was a time when you could call a business in Harlem with only 33 Harlem, yet that’s what you’d call to reach the Yuengling offices in New York. This trading card caught my…
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HNBA Zoom Meeting on Tuesday (7pm)
On Tuesday at 7pm we’ll meet on Zoom to learn more about strategies for buying a home, refinancing, and more ways to build generational wealth in these complex times. We will also have a candidate for Manhattan DA – Tali Farhadian Weinstein – join us to talk about how she wants to reform the DA’s…
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Aaron Douglas
The esteemed Harlem Renaissance painter Aaron Douglas has two of his amazing works up at the Whitney Museum. These large 5′ square works are signature examples of his mature style – one that you might recognize if you visit the Schomburg which owns a number of his pieces. To learn more about Aaron Douglas, see:…
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Worrisome Harlem COVID Trends – Wear a Mask!
In East Harlem’s 10035 ZIP code, the positivity rate more than quadrupled from 0.37 to 1.53, and it more than doubled in Central Harlem’s 10030. Here is the four-week testing data through Oct. 24 for the eight ZIP codes covering Harlem: 10026 – Central Harlem (South): 38 positive cases, 1 death, 1.01 percent positivity 10027 –…
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James E. Hinton – Recording Black Activism
The New Yorker has an amazing video of work by the photographer James E. Hinton who made his name memorializing some of the most prominent figures of the civil-rights era. Hinton photographed not only Black leaders of the time (athletes, artists, politicians, thinkers, musicians – including Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, Mahalia…
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A Walk Through Harlem, New York’s Most Storied Neighborhood
The New York Times has a wonderful (virtual) walking and talking chat with the architect David Adjaye about Hotel Theresa, Marcus Garvey Park, the home of Langston Hughes, the Y.M.C.A. and other landmarks. A highly recommended, architectural focused stroll: The NYPD Wants Your Opinions The NYPD has come up with a detailed 18 question survey…
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Vote for Love
Census Data from 1661: Multicultural and Multilinguistic Dutch New Haarlem The first European colonists to arrive and settle in Harlem were strikingly diverse. The Dutch West Indies company that settled the village that would become New York City, focused on the robust accumulation of wealth as a primary objective and not on a monocultural populace.…
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Vote
Seen on the fence of the Fred Moore School – East 130th Street: Visit East Harlem The official guide to dining, culture, and shopping in East Harlem is undoubtedly not quite the list residents would create, but that is the nature of lists for the visitor. NYC Go highlights a number of places that we’d…
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Vote!
Enslaved Africans in Dutch Harlem Last year a number of major museums in The Netherlands began to cease using the term “Golden Age” to describe the 17th-century Dutch empire that included New Amsterdam, and the village that became Harlem. In particular, Dutch society has begun to wrestle with fact that much of the power and…
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The Mail
Harlem has had a mail system since 1673. In order for mail to travel, however, the road to Harlem to New York and beyond had to be finished, or at least made usable. Eventually, a monthly mail between New York and Boston was officially announced and the earliest letters set out on the first of…
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Early Voting Sites Are Open!
Vote in person, or simply drop off your absentee ballot. Early Voting New Yorkers can vote early for the November 3, 2020 general election. Early voting starts on October 24, and runs until November 1, 2020. Early Voting Information Saturday, October 24, 2020 10 AM to 4 PM Sunday, October 25, 2020 10 AM to…