Tag: Malcolm X

  • Metro-North Track Rebuild

    Metro-North Track Rebuild

    The Metro-North tracks from East 115th Street up to East 122nd Street will be replaced over the next couple of years. Starting this summer, the contractor will be building the new concrete supports under the existing tracks, getting them ready. This process of building the new concrete supports will take about a year, and only…

  • Cantilever

    Cantilever

    I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but in the last decade, the number of cantilever buildings (exploiting air rights, mostly) seems to have exploded. This proposed building (for lower Manhattan) is particularly dramatic: But uptown is not without cantilever buildings, even if the extra engineering costs rarely justify the design. Perhaps the best known…

  • A Flag?

    A Flag?

    Seriously? Manhattan (as a borough), has a flag? It looks suspiciously like the NYC flag with the only difference being details on the circular seal. The Manhattan Latin motto is gone. The 1625 is replaced with two stars. In the end, it’s pretty underwhelming. Perhaps the confusion between the flags means that we’ve seen the…

  • Malcolm X

    The story of Malcolm X is, of course, profoundly intertwined with that of Harlem. As a leading figure in Harlem’s radical scene it may seem incongruous that he was appointed to the 28th Precinct’s Community Council to serve as a community liaison. The chairman of the 28th Precinct’s Community Council was James Hicks the influential…