Welcome to Harlem’s Newsletter
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Blumstein’s
90 years ago, Blumstein’s department store, at 230 West 125th Street was the department store on 125th Street. It was also a flashpoint in the civil rights movement, and one which Adam Clayton Powell Jr., managed to turn into a nationally recognized victory. In 1885 Louis Blumstein arrived in the United States from Germany. He…
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Metro North Viaduct Replacement Update
The team is working to minimize impacts to the community and on Metro-North Railroad schedules. Over the next several months, mobilization and some site activity will occur for Phase 1 of the PAV project. Then, beginning this summer, we expect to begin work underneath the Viaduct, constructing new footings and columns (substructure work). In coordination…
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Preservation in Harlem Conference
Register here to Save YOUR Spot. Seating is Limited. FREE 2023 Harlem Historic Preservation Conference: Harlem and the Future 22023 Historic Preservation Conference -Harlem and the Future 2: Preserving Culture & Sustaining Historic Character in a Changing Environmentwww.eventbrite.com “Harlem and the Future 2: Preserving Culture & Sustaining Historic Character in a Changing Environment” will discuss the current…
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Save the Date! Harlem Talks Trash!
On Tuesday, June 13th at 7:00 PM you are invited to the June HNBA meeting where we’ll talk trash! Come out to hear from local elected officials, Community Board 11, DSNY, and others on inequity in the Department of Sanitation’s services provided to our community. We’ll meet in the ground floor community room at the…
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National Gun Violence Awareness Day
June 2. Wear Orange. Stop the violence.
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Figure Skating in Harlem Wins The International Olympic Committee’s Women And Sports Trophy 2021 For The Americas
Figure Skating in Harlem, a not-for-profit organization located in New York City that provides girls with innovative year-round health, education and fitness programs was (finally) officially presented with the IOC Women and Sport Award 2021 Trophy for the Americas. The ceremony for this 2-year-old award took place during a side event co-hosted by the International…
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Eartha Kitt
Austin Hansen photographed Kitt leading a dance group at the Harlem YMCA in the early 1950’s. Eartha had been a professional dancer, dancing and touring with the Katherine Dunham Company between 1943 and 1948 before she became more widely known as a singer. Note the photo below, and the vents under the windows as the…
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Harlem Hellfighters
A selection of great images of the Harlem Hellfighters from WW1
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Inez Dickens Demands Fair Share for Harlem
The empty and imposing building on Central Park North that began its existence in 1914 as a branch of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association (YWHA) (and housed recently immigrated Jewish women in need of assistance), was sold in 1942 to the U.S. Army and briefly used as a rest-and-relaxation center for local soldiers. After the war it…
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(Un)Common Stock
This rather dull piece of Harlem ephemera – a 5 shares worth of stock in the Harlem Stock Exchange – doesn’t on it’s surface have much going for it. Almost the only thing of interest here is that of the $100,000 total amount of stock, a certain Julius D. Westmoreland owned 5 shares. And this…
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Lost Church – Part 2
A month or two ago I’d mentioned that The Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital, just east of Marcus Garvey Park (between 122nd and 121st Streets and Madison and Park Avenues) replaced a Harlem church (outlined in green below) The fuzzy photo (below) showed the rock rubble in Marcus Garvey park before the depression era work…
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Harlem Rose Garden Tree Tour
Join the New York Botanical Garden’s Levi on an extensive tour of the Harlem Rose Garden identifying trees, noting their diversity, and diving into a range of topics from ecology, plant diversity. Harlem’s Julia De Burgos At Lincoln Center East Harlem’s poet – Julia De Burgos – is currently being celebrated with massive murals and a quote…
