Welcome to Harlem’s Newsletter
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Precinct Meeting Tonight
New Location – Hunter College – 3rd Avenue at 119th Street This is a friendly reminder that tonight’s community council meeting is at 6pm. We will be meeting at the Hunter College Silberman School, 2180 Third Avenue (Corner of East 119 Street & Third Avenue). We are excited to see you and hear from you again.
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Compost Tour
Hey compost friends! I’m sharing an upcoming event on Thursday, April 20th in celebration of Earth day. Our event, Walk-N-Talk Compost Tours, will take folks on a walking tour of three community composting sites in West Harlem: Maggie’s Garden, Frank White Memorial Garden, and Jenny’s Garden. Tours will start at 11AM and 2PM. I thought…
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Jobs Not Guns
Last month, Amsterdam News had a great article on how Uptown Grand Central is using $20,000 from the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, to fund clean-up around the Metro-North station and Northern East Harlem as a whole. “As part of our comprehensive gun violence strategy, we are focused on prevention efforts to keep young people engaged…
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HNBA April Meeting Recording
If you missed the fascinating April 11th conversation on Black home ownership in New York City, here’s the recording: Topic: HNBA MeetingDate: Apr 11, 2023 06:51 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) View Detail Share You can copy the recording information below and share with othershttps://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/OJeDxYDKo4Bou8lTaHRomEVfQeNMwKb2hIsPY_ZwBXF14VWElLxnB2e-WscJxqUy.1uG8qEBSlCJIuAlAPasscode: 5P@$yEVm Housing Justice Town Hall, April 30th Barnard College – Undesigning the…
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Open Plans
OpenPlans.org wanted to thank all the HNBA members for the opportunity to present at the HNBA April meeting! Everyone is urged to reach out with any follow up questions and feel free to share the presentation (below) with anyone who might be interested. Emily also wanted to share their white paper on parking mandates in case folks…
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Latino Theater Heritage
On April 20 (Thurs), The Harlem East Block Association will host Harlem’s own Award Winning Playwright Eugene Rodriguez to discuss his petition to create an El Barrio Theater District to spur economic development & to make use of East Harlem’s 4 beautiful public theaters. Join via http://shorturl.at/uOVYZ April Community Council Meeting – Wednesday 19th Community…
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One-on-One With Inez Dickens – TONIGHT at 7:00
Assemblymember Inez Dickens, who is running to replace Councilmember Jordan, will be on a Zoom meeting with HNBA and the Harlem East Block Association tonight at 7:00 PM. This is a fantastic opportunity to hear from Inez and to ask her questions about how she intends to work for a cleaner, safer, and more affordable…
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Harlem’s City Council Candidates’ Forum
Register HERE to attend Harlem’s City Council Candidates’ Forum. The forum will be on Thursday, April 27th at 7:00 PM. The forum is cosponsored by The Greater Harlem Coalition and MMPCIA. (Harlem’s current Councilmember declined to attend.) If you have questions that you’d like the candidates (or one specific candidate) to answer, please write it…
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HNBA Meeting, Tonight at 7:00 (Zoom)
Tonight at 7:00 PM, HNBA will have our April community meeting on Zoom. We’ve got two very interesting speakers on tap this month. First up will be Emily Chingay from Open Plans, a group that would like to help Harlem neighbors have more say in how their streets are used (playstreets for children, outdoor dining, beautification…
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1st Avenue 1910 – Little Italy
Back at the turn of the 20th Century, the eastern part of East Harlem was a sizable Italian enclave. This photo intrigued me with the location, 1st Avenue: In addition, one of the pushcarts – selling food, wares, clothing, etct. – had this address on it: And indeed, the photo was taken close to 1st…
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One-on-One With Inez Dickens
Assemblymember Inez Dickens, who is running to replace Councilmember Jordan, will be on a Zoom meeting with HNBA and the Harlem East Block Association, on Thursday, April 13th, at 7:00 PM. This is a fantastic opportunity to hear from Inez and to ask her questions about how she intends to work for a cleaner, safer,…
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Karma
On April 30th, 1989, Donald Trump famously took out this ad in the New York Times that called for the Exonerated 5 (including Yusef Saalam) to be executed. Now, in 2023, Yusef Salaam is running for City Council, and has published his own ad, explaining how Trump and the criminal justice system took years away…
