Category: History
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Tell NYC What You Think the Budget Priorities for CB11 Should Be
CB11 is collecting your opinions on what the city should budget for our community. Here is a quick Google Form for you to fill out. HNBA has already submitted a larger statement, but you can offer your own thoughts/ideas below: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdI4pwQMMuSCoAzc4xucERaaF9u2XhvA-IuDySoMkrrajy-Ew/viewform How Old is Harlem, Anyway? From the beginning we need to acknowledge that the…
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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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Reminder: 25th Precinct’s Community Council Meeting Tonight at 6 PM
Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81120463238?pwd=VDdzd1UrR2NYbTYwSHRSdzE1Ui9zQT09 Meeting ID: 811 2046 3238Passcode: 2525PCC The Central Park U-Boat Untapped New York has a great piece on the captured German U-boat from WW1 that was brought to Central Park for display as a War Bonds promotion. Proof of the purchase of War Bonds allowed entry into the U-boat: When reading the…
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Henry Hudson
In 1609, on September 13th, Henry Hudson weighed anchor at West Harlem on his way up what would become known as the Hudson River: [September 13]The thirteenth, faire weather, the wind Northerly. At seuen of the clocke in the morning,as the floud came we weighed, and turned foure miles into the Riuer. The tide being…
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Harlem Lodge No. 457
The important role of clubs in Black New York in the early 20th century cannot be overstated. While class and color discrimination did impact membership and participation, Black Harlemites relied on clubs for networking – professional and personal. The masons played a significant role in Black Harlem in the 1920’s The New-York Historical Society has…
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The Silent March
In the 1970’s a back-hoe operator noticed scores and scores of film canisters and reels poking out of the soil where he was digging a new septic system: The wet, dirty, and frozen film reels represented a trove of silent era films that the world had not seen for generations. Dawson City in Canada’s far…
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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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The Godfather of Harlem
I confess I’ve never watched The Godfather of Harlem but I’ve been so taken by this dual versions of their ad: And, when Park Avenue was pretty empty on a weekend morning I thought I’d capture the two images.
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HARLEM WEEK 2020
FROM SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 TO SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 What originally started as a one-day tribute to one of the most culturally rich neighborhoods in the world has now become a month-long celebration enjoying its 46th year. Recognizing this year, 2020 is unlike we have ever seen HARLEM WEEK this year will take place from August…
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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…