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  • They Can’t Read Our Minds
    They Can’t Read Our Minds

    “They can’t read our minds” is one of the mantras of HNBA and should be one of any engaged citizen. Reporting everything from leaking hydrants, to rats, to illegal drug sales helps our city respond proportionately. Unfortunately, the use of 311 and 911 is disproportionately impacted by many factors that are often rolled up into…

  • Polemical Mapping

    HNBA’s Vice President, Shawn Hill, presented at NYC’s Open Data week this past winter. The presentation is now up on NYC Open Data’s YouTube channel. The video looks at how the De Blasio administration obscured the inequitable distribution of shelters in New York City and compares the distribution of family shelters vs. single adult shelters.…

  • Save the Date!
    Save the Date!

    On September 13th (Tuesday) at 6:00, we’ll gather at East 129th Street and 5th Avenue (south-east corner) to celebrate the unveiling of Ann Petry Place. The acclaimed African-American author, Ann Petry, lived at 2 East 129th Street when she engaged in much of her activist writing for African American newspapers such as The Amsterdam News…

  • Harlem Week
    Harlem Week

    August 12-21 Make sure to plan on attending the virtual and/or in-person events during Harlem Week 2022. Sponsored by The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, HARLEM WEEK is now 48 years old. Since its founding, the festival has grown to showcase the diaspora of African, Caribbean, Hispanic and European cultures, alongside Harlem’s rich social, economic, and political history.…

  • Don’t Want Guns In Our Community?
    Don’t Want Guns In Our Community?

    Celebrate Alternate Side Parking Who knew? While everyone, even disgruntled drivers, acknowledges that the return to twice a week alternate side parking reduces the trash on our streets, reduces the rat population, and adds to community pride, who knew that it also impacts the presence of guns in our community? While alternate side parking may…

  • Heart to Heart is Back
    Heart to Heart is Back

    Mark Your Calendar!!Heart to Heart Concert is LIVE again from Symphony Space!HEART TO HEART CONCERT – The Sounds of Gospel!Date: Saturday, September 17, 2022Time: The concert begins at 6:00pm EST Location: Peter Norton Symphony SpaceAddress: 2537 Broadway, NY, NY(Located on the southwest corner of 95th St and Broadway)  We’re back and ready to “Raise the Praise!” Labor of Love Association hosts Heart…

  • Giglio Lift

    Head to Pleasant Avenue below 116th Street on Sunday for the Giglio Di Sant’ Antonio of East Harlem Feastival. Food, fun, and the raising of the Giglio. Guns Down! Brushes Up! Art in the Park is back at it, bringing beauty and joy to our community. If you’ve got kids, join the party on September…

  • Lincoln Jail For Women Opposed By Angela Davis
    Lincoln Jail For Women Opposed By Angela Davis

    Patch.com is reporting that plans to revive Lincoln Jail (on 110th Street between 5th and Lenox) a women’s “trauma informed” jail has run into opposition from local and national activists. Most prominent among them is, perhaps, Angela Davis, who has signed a letter opposing the creation of a Lincoln Jail for Women as have hundreds…

  • Quilt
    Quilt

    The Africa Center recently displayed a fantastic quilt that celebrates African and African American contributions to this country’s foodways, You are invited to participate by submitting someone or something, that deserves a square: https://legacyquiltproject.mofad.org/ Check with the Africa Center about viewing this amazing artwork: Head Start and Pre-School Program The West Harlem Community Organization is…

  • Getting Rid of Stuff
    Getting Rid of Stuff

    DSNY wants us all to: Buy less stuff Donate/give it to someone who’d use it Recycle it Throw it out responsibly And, to accomplish this, they’ve produced a pamphlet highlighting what can be recycled, composted, and donated. On their website ‘how to get rid of…’ you can type in the thing you’d like to get…

  • Black Nuns
    Black Nuns

    The West 124th Street home of The Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, one of three orders of mostly black nuns in the country, still partly remains – despite partial demolition. The Handmaids are now over 100 years old, and had occupied this partly demolished site since 1944 before selling it 5 years…

  • Clean-Up With Congressman Espaillat

    Late-breaking news is that Congressman Adriano Espaillat will also be joining the clean-up at Park/125. Here’s your chance to have one-on-one time with a number of your electeds — to both give feedback and ask questions. If you have something to say or ask, here’s your chance. We’ll meet up under the tracks at 125th & Park,…