Welcome to Harlem’s Newsletter

  • NO LINES! Flu Shots & COVID Testing on Wednesday 12-4 p.m.

    Hi neighbors, Friendly heads-up that we will have the COVID testing van and flu shots back this Wednesday, December 9, from 12-4 p.m., during Fresh Food Box: https://www.grownyc.org/foodbox/UGC So you can get your veggies and health check, too! (And/or just the health check! The lines are separate, and short for both.) COVID swab tests are FREE…

  • HNBA Holiday Party (tonight at 7pm)

    Let’s usher in the holiday season with a Zoom HNBA Party tonight at 7:00 PM. Subscribe to this blog: https://hnba.nyc/subscribe-to-the-hnba-blog/ to get the Zoom link and we’ll toast to the end of 2020 and (hopefully) light at the end of the tunnel in 2021. Since 1970 It’s interesting to see how New York’s ethnic/racial composition has changed…

  • 1 Hour Photo

    Anyone who smiles at this recently exposed sign on 3rd, knows how exciting 1 hour photos were in the 80s and 90s. On of our neighbors noted that this sign is a left-over film shoot prop, and not an authentic and revealed sign: Which has been removed. And, Further Uptown at 127th and 3rd Avenue…

  • Tali Farhadian Weinstein Speaks to HNBA

    At our November meeting, Tali Farhadian Weinstein spoke to HNBA about her background and the reasons she’s running for Manhattan DA in 2021. The Ghosts of Segregation A chilling photographic essay on America’s past and how it persists and lurks from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/travel/ghosts-of-segregation.html

  • Purchasing a Home And What The Bank Looks At…

    Last month Chase Bank attended our HNBA meeting and Kevin Cruikshank went over a whole range of housing options and what a bank will look at if you apply for a mortgage on any one of these properties. Classic Mistakes People Make When Purchasing a New Home Harlem World has a good, quick article on…

  • CB11 Moratorium

    After fighting for years, finally, CB11 is willing to consider issuing a resolution on moratorium on drug facilities services in East Harlem to NYC government. The current proposal is by no means enough. We need to push CB11 to ask the government to REDUCE the drug facilities in East Harlem, not just to stop adding more. Click below…

  • New Community Board Members Wanted!

    Community Boards in East Harlem (#11) and Central Harlem (#10) now welcome new members. Deadline to apply is Feb 15. Elected officials themselves or their aides join the meetings of community boards, thus it is one of the easiest way to voice your concerns to NYC elected officials. Though it does not have voting power,…

  • Get Tested East Harlem!

  • Podcast

    Tali Farhadian Weinstein who joined our November HNBA meeting in her run for Manhattan DA, mentioned that she has a podcast – one episode of which, is focused on a conversation with Senator Cory Booker: https://www.taliforda.com/hearing-with-tali-farhadian-weinstein/ Block Party! With the darker, colder days, I thought we could all use a pick-me-up and revisit the 2019…

  • HNBA (Zoom) Holiday Party! Tuesday, Dec. 8th

    We’ll all readily admit that it won’t be the same, but we’re going to try anyway. Now that the turkey leftovers are gone, let’s usher in the holiday season with a Zoom HNBA Party on Tuesday, December 8th at 7:00 PM. Subscribe to this blog: https://hnba.nyc/subscribe-to-the-hnba-blog/ to get the Zoom link (we’ll have it for you in…

  • Redlining Webinar

    If you’re curious about the issue of redlining, join The Washington and Chicago Map Societies on December 3, 2020, 7:00 pm when they present Linda Gartz in a Zoom discussion: “How Federal Government Redlining Maps Segregated America.”  She will discuss her award-winning book, “Redlined,” and her discovery of the redlining maps used by the federal government to exclude African-Americans from the middle-class…

  • Legal Drug Sales

    Given the recent NY Times Article on how Perdue Pharma internally strategized ways to profit through addicting clients to their OxyCodone drug, it is worth looking at the data for Manhattan that came out of the ‘discovery’ on the recent lawsuit. Last year I assembled the data for Manhattan (or New York County – the…