Tag: LGBTQ
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Precinct Meeting – Focus on The Rise in Crime
Kioka Jackson, the president of the 25th Precinct’s Community Council writes: Good Afternoon Neighbors and Friends,I hope you all are doing great. I wanted to invite you to join us IN PERSON for our February 2022 meeting. I have been getting a multitude of calls and emails about the current events in and around our neighborhood…
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Mt. Morris Bathhouse
The Mount Morris Bathhouse (also sometimes called) the Mount Morris Turkish Baths, was located at 28 East 125th Street. Built in 1889-90 by C. Abbott French & Co., the structure was designed as a blend of two popular styles at the time, neo-Grec and Queen Anne. The bathhouse was the first commercial tenant of the…
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Black Wall Street Festival
3 short plays in Harlem’s first annual Black Wall Street (theater) Festival: Celebrate a Black-Owned Harlem Gay Bar with Poster House In honor of Pride month, Poster House is thrilled to partner with Alibi Lounge in Harlem, one of the last Black-owned gay bars in NYC, for an evening of cocktails & design activities that are sure…
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New Supportive Housing Projects Coming to East Harlem
Developers unveiled plans this week for a 10-story building housing LGBTQ youth and a 15-story building for formerly incarcerated people. Story Nick Garber, Patch Staff Nov 19, 2020 4:36 pm ET|Updated Nov 19, 2020 6:42 pm ET Two new supportive housing developments are coming to East Harlem. Supportive housing is more than just an apartment or room, it’s a…
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Mail In Your Vote and Honor Wesley A. Williams
The image (above) from The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is of Wesley A. Williams, a Black mail carrier/driver from 1915. Wesley was photographed under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, a notoriously racist American President who re:segregated the Post Office (from Vox – https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist): Easily the worst part of Wilson’s record as president…
