Welcome to Harlem’s Newsletter
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Thank You! HNBA Holiday Donation to East 125th Nursing Home
Shoutout to all neighbors who contributed to HNBA this year! Your donation enabled the block association to team up with Uptown Grand Central to bring a little year-end joy to the staff at Northern Manhattan Rehab nursing home on East 125th Street between Park and Lexington. Like most nursing homes, Northern Manhattan Rehab has been…
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Winter Lights on East 125th Street
You may have noticed the trees glowing for winter along East 125th Street. How did they happen? Most New Yorkers assume that the holiday and winter lighting that graces many commercial corridors across the city is paid for and programmed by the City. In fact, the City has nothing to do with it: All decorative…
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Black-Owned Businesses + COVID
Harlem Park to Park has partnered with Uber Eats to create Black-owned business pavilions on Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. between 137 and 139th Streets. The Renaissance Pavilion was designed by local firm WXY architecture + urban design and the innovative scaffolding company Urban Umbrella. Their custom-designed, heated parklets (outdoor dining structures that are located in parking spaces) have been…
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Manhattan DA Candidates’ Forum
There are 8 candidates vying to replace Cy Vance as Manhattan’s DA. The Greater Harlem Coalition – GreaterHarlem.nyc – is hosting a virtual forum for residents of Harlem and East Harlem. To attend the forum, go to this link: Attend the DA Candidates’ Forum To submit a question to the candidates, go to this link:…
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Night Watch
If you’ve ever been to Amsterdam, or been in an art history class, odds are that you’ve come across the painting Night Watch by Rembrandt. This famous painting shows a group of well off townsfolk who’ve assembled with weapons and a drum, to ostensibly keep the peace in their town. The painting is, of course,…
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MuchFest 2020! December 26, 2020 – January 9, 2021
Wrap up your holiday season and say goodbye to your tree at Mulchfest. Join NYC Parks and the New York City Department of Sanitation in the NYC holiday tradition of recycling your Christmas tree! Put on your boots and haul your tree to a Mulchfest location — we’ll chip your tree into wood chips that we’ll use…
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Harlem Postcards
Every year the Studio Museum in Harlem celebrates our community as a beacon of African-American history and culture. The Studio Museum, along with other cultural landmarks such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner, at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue, serve as popular postcard images for visitors and residents. The Studio…
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Heart to Heart
Our HNBA board member extraordinaire, Hallia Baker puts on this incredible program – Heart to Heart – every holiday season. This year, of course, is different. However, the great thing is you can stream the event directly into your home as you gather with family, prepare your dinner, or just spend a couple of days…
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Life Expectancy at Birth
From: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf Infant Mortality New Home for Silicon Harlem Silicon Harlem – currently located up at 148th Street – is going to have a new home, along with affordable and mixed income housing on West 126th street. The project is called Balton Commons, and is a $19-million mixed-use development currently under construction at 267 West…
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Keith Taylor for City Council – 9
As we all know, Bill Perkins, particularly during this last session, has been unable to forcefully represent our community due to undisclosed issues. While he’s been propped up by his staff, crucial time and representation has been lost and Harlem has suffered unnecessarily. 2021 is an election year, and a number of candidates have jumped…
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NYC’s Worst Landlords’ List
(The Harlem Contributors) Every year around this time there is a listing of the worst landlords in NYC, as determined by HPD complaints. Patch has an article on it: https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/26-harlem-buildings-appear-citys-worst-landlord-watchlist I have taken the worst in Harlem and created a map to illustrate where they are located. Interestingly, the largest grouping is in northern, West…
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Holiday Season and Poverty
As we approach the holiday season, I wanted to ground us all by noting how unevenly poverty is spread across the 5 boroughs. This map of the shameful persistence of poverty, asks us all to think about what we can do to address income, educational, and opportunity inequality.