Tag: 125th Street
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125th Street Redesign
Transportation Alternatives is floating an idea on how to address the endemic double parking on 125th Street that effectively blocks bus traffic, forcing busses to veer into traffic lanes, causing more congestion and slowdowns. The proposal is to take the bus lanes which are located on the edges of the street, and instead put them…
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Up in the Clouds
It’s true that Harlem doesn’t have any supertalls gracing the top of Central Park, but we do have a new tallest residence – the old Victoria Theater building. 6 Square Feet are reporting that a lottery has begun for 102 mixed-income units that start from $755/month. at this building: At 27 stories and 340 feet…
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High School Graduates
How Calculated: Estimated number of people 25 years and over who have completed High School (Includes Equivalency), divided by the total number of people 25 years and over; expressed as percent. Source: American Community Survey Koch and Co Ephemeral New York has a great article on the stately building, and former department store on 125th street…
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HNBA November Meeting, Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7:00 PM
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 9th. at 7:00 PM HNBA will welcome Michael Lythcott attend to explain the new National Black Theater building project that will replace the former building on 5th Avenue between 125/126. This large new cultural center and residence will be a major landmark in our community. Learn more about the project, the theater,…
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Uptown Grand Central, Again!
If you’ve been on East 125th Street recently, you’ve probably noticed that Uptown Grand Central has again restarted their amazing mural project on the otherwise, monotonous green construction hoarding. The UGC project has grown from 50 artists in 2019 who enlivened the area around the Metro-North station at 125/Park. This year, is inviting up to…
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Protest Yesterday Arrived at Park/125
A long line of police cars announced the conclusion of a protest that started at 26th Street last night and marched up to East Harlem chanting “Abolish the Police”. A protester (below) observes a smoking device, set off under the tracks. The exhausted remnants of the protest: Vaccination Bus at Marcus Garvey Park Get on…
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Mount Sinai and Methadone in Our Community
With new data from a FOIL request to OASAS, we are able to contextualize the size/impact that Mount Sinai has on our community with their two major methadone hubs – West 124th Street, and East 125th Street (The Lee Building at Park Avenue). Looking at the screenshot below, you can see how large Mount Sinai’s…
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Holiday Lights Tonight
The 125th Street BID will light up West 125th Street tonight. For more details on the festivities, see: https://harlemlightitup.vamonde.com/posts/event-details-turn-on-the-lights/10455/ Marilyn Monroe in Harlem From the website: https://www.popspotsnyc.com/iconic_new_york_city_film_locations/ What the site doesn’t say is that one of her husbands – Arthur Miller – lived almost where the camera is, taking the photo. Miller was born in…
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James E. Hinton – Recording Black Activism
The New Yorker has an amazing video of work by the photographer James E. Hinton who made his name memorializing some of the most prominent figures of the civil-rights era. Hinton photographed not only Black leaders of the time (athletes, artists, politicians, thinkers, musicians – including Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, Mahalia…
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Pathmark Site and Target Coming to West 125th Street
A new rendering is out for the Extell project that will replace the old Pathmark building: It’s hare to imagine retail here, given the M35 bus, and the tenants they may be after are social service agencies who deal with the issues in the immediate neighborhood. Further down 125th Street, Target looks like a prospective…
