Welcome to Harlem’s Newsletter
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No Air Conditioning
The New Woman Behind the Camera at The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met has a great exhibit of women photographers that just opened. Among the photographers is Lucy Ashjian who made a number of great photographs of dancers at The Savoy in the 1930’s: For more on the exhibit, see: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/new-woman-behind-the-camera
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Walking Distance to a Park
How Calculated: A map of “walk-to-a-park service areas” from the NYC Parks Department was overlayed onto a map of 2017 population estimates by census tract to calculate the percentage of the population that potentially live within the service area. These percentages were aggregated up to a neighborhood level. Source: New York City Department of Parks and Recreation,New…
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Where Did Eric Adams Campaign
The City newspaper has tabulated the 800 campaign stops that Adams, Kathryn Garcia, Maya Wiley and Andrew Yang made around the five boroughs between April Fools’ Day and Primary Day. After months of seemingly endless online forums, the location of these campaign stops is fascinating and tells you a lot about who they saw as…
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West 132 to be Named After Evelyn Thomas
On Saturday, July 17, 2021 @ 12:30pm join the American Legion Post #398 of New York in co-naming West 132 Street between Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd and Frederick Douglass Blvd. This initiative by the Neighbors United of West 132 Street Block Association (or NUW 132) recently received the go-ahead from the City to co-name…
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Tax Cut Today (Thanks, Democrats)
On Thursday, July 15, American working families get a huge tax cut. On that day, initial payments go out to 92% of American families with children: $250-$300 per month, per child, so that a family with three kids, aged two, four, and ten, will get $10.200 per year. (For that family it’s $850/month, on the…
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104 and 25,626
Only 104 votes separate Kristin Jordan from the incumbent, Bill Perkins. 104 ballots (out of 25,626 ballots cast in the City Council 9 race means that we’re headed for a manual recount. We have not heard from the Board of Elections specifically that Bill Perkins’ wife – a patronage appointee to the NYC Board of…
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LGA in East Harlem
La Guardia’s Apartment, before he moved to Gracie Mansion, was located on 5th Avenue at 109. Today his view would have been something like this: A contemporary real estate site describes the location in this way: Description 1274 Fifth is a six-story building, built in 1934, along the fabulous 50-block stretch of Fifth Avenue above…
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Chicken Egg
When NYS’s OASAS agency oversaturates struggling communities with opioid treatment programs it justifies this by looking at addiction rates. What OASAS fails to acknowledge or admit to local community boards and politicians, is that they’ve already oversaturated struggling communities, and want to add more capacity to avoid the more difficult process of equitably locating programs…
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1936
In 1936, on this day, Jesse Owens qualified for the US Olympic team, running the 100 m trial in 10.4 seconds (note the Ohio top). He also jumped 26′ 3″ in the broad jump, and set a world record for the 200 m race – 21 seconds. What few people know, is that this qualification…
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Do You Have an Opinion on NYC’s Streets?
NYC’s DOT Wants to Hear From You The future of New York City is one where everyone has access to reliable and environmentally-friendly transportation options, as well as safe and welcoming streets and public spaces. NYC DOT is developing the NYC Streets Plan, a five-year transportation plan to improve the safety, accessibility, and quality of…
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Protest Tomorrow @2:00 PM
Join tomorrow’s March on Gracie Mansion. We are marching for housing for the homeless because we are disgusted at the ineffectiveness and the cost of New York’s current shelter system. Every day the residents of Harlem see shelter residents discharged onto our streets without adequate support. As a result, our streets and our parks have…
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March on Gracie Mansion
On July 10th (this Saturday) at 2:00 pm, Shams, aka Da Homeless Hero, and numerous other organizations are marching to charge the mayor with reckless endangerment of homeless New Yorkers due to poor conditions of the shelters and lack of social services for shelter residents, and also to demand fundamental reform to shrink the ever-growing…
