Category: Maps
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Staying in Harlem
With pandemic concerns abating and rules relaxing, tourism is tentatively returning. Harlem World Magazine has partnered with Stay in order to produce a curated list (mostly Booking.com listings) of places where guests can find Harlem accommodation. through the very stylish Northern Lights Mansion on West 122nd Street: Up to a more corporate spot in Aloft:…
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Hue Arts: The Brown Paper
Hue Arts has released a Brown Paper on the experiences and realities of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and all People of Color arts entities. The project seeks to reveal the value they bring to their communities and to the cultural ecosystem of New York City as a whole. Ensuring that arts…
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Zero Vehicle Households
Zero-vehicle households are concentrated in Manhattan and southern parts of the Bronx. Outer borough households generally have more vehicles, a function of land use and density, non-vehicle transportation options, and income. The number of household vehicle registrations increased by 8.7% between 2010 and 2020, resulting in a very slight increase in the ratio of vehicle…
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School Children and Vaccination Rates
Gothamist has a new look at vaccination rates in New York City schools. The map below shows the proportion of eligible students at each school who’ve received a full course of COVID-19 vaccines (from a low of 10% up to a high of 93%): Harlem’s High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering is Harlem’s highest…
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HNBA Meeting Tonight at 7:00
Tonight HNBA will have our new Community Affairs Officer [Troycarra Powers] from the 25th Precinct attend our HNBA meeting to answer any concerns you have about public safety and the rise in crime in our community. In addition, Tatiana from https://womenscja.org/ will be joining to talk about their effort to convert Lincoln Jail (on Central…
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2nd Avenue Subway
The MTA now hopes to break ground on (this iteration of the 2nd Avenue Subway) by the end of the year. Chuck Schumer – senator from New York – says: “Things never looked better for getting the Second Avenue subway to East Harlem.” In our neighborhood 71 percent of residents use public transit to get…
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1880 – Where Did Women Live?
This fascinating map of the density of women in 1880, shows how Central Harlem housed many more women than East Harlem (the darker the color, the more women per block – data coming from the 1880 census). The answer is partly visible in terms of the buildings built in 1880 above 125th Street in Central…
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Want Something Fixed?
REPORT AN INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUE IN OUR DISTRICT! This year Congressman Espaillat brought home nearly $8 billion from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to fund the Second Avenue Subway expansion, rebuild our city’s crumbling bridges, repave our decades-old roads, and so much more to make transit routes safer and more accessible for all New…
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East Harlem Was Harlem
In 1880, Central Harlem was just starting to be filled in with residences and people. West Harlem, and the Upper West Side, for that matter, was nothing but farmland. In the map (above) of populated blocks, note how much of Manhattan’s development was east-side based. The East River, not the Hudson, was the waterway of…
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Single Seniors
How Calculated: Percent of people aged 65 and older living alone Source: American Community Survey A Rare Off-Grid Manhattan Street Sylvan Court, which has seven properties, rarely sees properties record for sale. A 1,600-square-foot townhouse in East Harlem returned for sale asking $1.69 million. Its address is 2 Sylvan Court — a blind alley with just seven homes that’s…
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Feliz Día de Reyes! (3 Kings Day)
Camels on 3rd Avenue 2nd Avenue Subway Enters a New Phase New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced that the Second Avenue Subway expansion project that would extend the Second Avenue line to 125th Street in East Harlem has moved to the engineering phase of the project timeline. Governor Kathy…
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125th Street Redesign
Transportation Alternatives is floating an idea on how to address the endemic double parking on 125th Street that effectively blocks bus traffic, forcing busses to veer into traffic lanes, causing more congestion and slowdowns. The proposal is to take the bus lanes which are located on the edges of the street, and instead put them…
