Tag: 5th Avenue
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119th Street and 5th Avenue
A great photo from 1992 of Bob’s Newsstand, taken at 5th Avenue and 119th Street. It’s a little hard to see, but Bob is standing to the left of the door. Here is that intersection, today: The black and white photo is taken by Katsu Naito and is featured in a Guardian photo essay: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/sep/04/katsu-naito-harlem-1990s-new-york-photo-essay…
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The Silent Parade
Silent Parade, July 28, 1917. Following a series of lynchings in Waco, Texas and Memphis, Tennessee in late 1916 and early 1917 and the vicious mob violence that killed 39 black men during a riot in St. Louis (though the actual number of dead and injured was likely much higher), the NAACP organized a demonstration.…
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Harlem Renaissance Banner 2.0
The Gatekeepers Collective (TGC), with West Harlem Development Corp and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council are launching HARLEM RENAISSANCE 2.0, honoring the Centennial of the Harlem Renaissance and SGLBTQ (same gender loving (SGL), gay, lesbian, bisexual, Transgender, Queer) S/Heroes: a public art and performance initiative including a series of Banners along West 125thSt. celebrating SGLBTQ…
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Harlem Tax Protest
Oversaturation Tax ProtestJoin us on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 6:00pm for a 1-hour information session. Hello Harlem NeighborsHarlem has over 20% of NYC drug treatment and homeless shelters, the majority of which are concentrated within .4 miles on 125th street. This hyper-concentration of social services is having a deleterious effect on all who live, work, worship, and…
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2020 Census Data on Hispanic New Yorkers
A view of Zip Code 10035 from the 2020 Census. You can see that over the last 30 years, the percentage of Hispanics went down from 62% to 54% – still the largest group by far, in this zip code. In this map of northern Manhattan (above) you can see the grayer areas where the…
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Marcus Garvey Park Tree Lighting
December 8th, at 6:00 PM. 124th Street and 5th Avenue. Join the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance in the lighting of the holiday tree. Under the Stoops Along 5th Avenue, between 129/128th Streets, there are 3 brownstones in a row that still have grills that allow light into the under-the-stoop space. As a result, you can…
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Congressional Gold Medal Awarded to Harlem Hellfighters
In mid-August, the Senate passed the Harlem Hellfighters Congressional Gold Medal Act to award a Congressional Gold Medal to a Black infantry regiment known as the Harlem Hellfighters. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-117hr3642enr The Harlem Hellfighters, the 369th Infantry Regiment, are regarded as the most celebrated African American regiment in World War I, having fought against Germany’s forces longer than almost any other American…
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Local Restaurants vs. Chains
A dataset of nearly 800,000 independent and chain restaurants for the contiguous U.S. was used to examine the total number of restaurants with the same name and created an average “chainness” score, which measures the likelihood of finding the same venues in other parts of the country. The paper that examined how “chainy” a community is, by…
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Roy DeCarava – Photographer
Roy DeCarava was an African American artist who received early critical acclaim for his black and white photography. Initially engaging and imaging the lives of African Americans and jazz musicians in the communities where he lived and worked, DeCarava was a regular presence in Harlem and documented a number of local scenes and people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_DeCarava…
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National Black Theater Confirms Demolition and Redevelopment
As we say farewell to 2020, we want to update you on the seeds we have planted during a year that has been marked with tremendous transition and proactive fortification of NBT’s future. NBT has recently formulated a plan to ensure our facility is positioned for Harlem’s future, one that will anchor and recapitalize the…
