Tag: Marcus Garvey Park

  • Let’s Work Towards Carbon Neutrality

    Let’s Work Towards Carbon Neutrality

    NYC Accelerator is a free program through the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability committed to restoring NYC and its buildings. The Accelerator team experts work with building representatives to improve building’s energy and water efficiency through building upgrades which create healthier buildings, save owners and residents money on their utility bills, and improve local air quality. …

  • Our Meeting with Mark Levine and The NYC Accelerator Program

    Our Meeting with Mark Levine and The NYC Accelerator Program

    We had a great meeting on October 12th with Mark Levine. If you missed it, and want to learn more about his vision for Manhattan (or learn more about the NYC Accelerator Program), please see: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/LnBjqZRkp1nXyRTjfaF5yuyCuIoxrrbeOHl-kUbX4abvxDw6JW3zr2oLUT5zydHm.aroNP0XIaqdeL4cQ  Passcode: 5Rn^1!L# Sculpture in Marcus Garvey Park On view through October 1, 2022, Thomas J Price: Witness celebrates a familiar everyday form…

  • Traveling While Black

    Traveling While Black

    Make sure to visit the Schomburg Library before the end of the year to see the fantastic exhibit “Traveling While Black”. The Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Kevin Young notes: Since the start of their experience in the Americas, Black people have been defined by travel, displacement, and resistance.  Whether in the…

  • MMPCIA Children’s Safety Protest

    MMPCIA Children’s Safety Protest

    Public Art at PS109

  • Minerals

    Minerals

    You may have heard that the American Museum of Natural History has reopened its minerals and gems hall to universal acclaim. On a recent visit to The Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals, the exhibits tell the fascinating story of how the vast diversity of mineral species arose on our planet, how scientists classify and…

  • Meet Brad Lander and Tell Him What You Want for Harlem

    Meet Brad Lander and Tell Him What You Want for Harlem

    Time Thursday, September 30 6 – 8pm EDT Location This event’s address is private. https://www.mobilize.us/landerfornyc/event/408284/ About this event Join Brad Lander, Democratic nominee for New York City Comptroller and other community leaders for an in-person listening session, focused on the issues and priorities of Harlem. Brad is excited to use the position of NYC Comptroller…

  • Literacy Across Harlem!

    Literacy Across Harlem!

    TOTAL EQUITY NOW invites West, Central and East Harlem to the 9th Annual Literacy Across Harlem March, Book Drive & Community Celebration! Saturday, October 2, 2021 12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. FREE! (PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED) UGC Eats (Urban Garden Center) Notice https://ugceats.com/ The Met Opera in Marcus Garvey Park Marcus Garvey Park’s amphitheater will host OPENING…

  • 9/11

    9/11

    On this day I wanted to post part of a piece from John Jay College that interviews Dr. Keith Taylor, a Harlem resident, 9/11 first responder, CUNY professor, and community leader. Twenty years ago on September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 lives were cruelly taken away from their family, friends, and colleagues. They senselessly lost fathers…

  • Ice Cream in Harlem

    Ice Cream in Harlem

    Two Harlem ice cream spots won praise in Today.com for their amazing offerings: Sugar Hill Creamery: New York, NY Serving out of two locations in the Harlem area, Sugar Hill Creamery is a labor of love built by wife-and-husband team Petrushka Bazin Larsen and Nick Larsen. With combined backgrounds in arts, culture, fine dining and…

  • The Heat Vulnerability Index

    The Heat Vulnerability Index

    The Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) shows neighborhoods whose residents are more at risk for dying during and immediately following extreme heat. It uses a statistical model to summarize the most important social and environmental factors that contribute to neighborhood heat risk. The factors included in the HVI are surface temperature, green space, access to home…

  • NoMAA Has a New Home

    NoMAA Has a New Home

    NOMAA makes new home at theUnited Palace of Spiritual ArtsNoMAA’s Studios The uptown arts community now has a new place to create art as the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) has officially opened NoMAA’s Studios @4140, taking residence in the office and four arts studios on the 2nd floor of the United Palace of Spiritual Arts at 4140 Broadway.    Led by Executive Director Niria…

  • Adults Who Walk or Bike for Transportation

    Adults Who Walk or Bike for Transportation

    How Calculated: Estimated number of adults who reported having walked or bicycled more than 10 blocks to get to and from work, school, public transportation or to do errands, in the past 30 days, divided by all adults in the area; expressed as a percent. Source: New York City Community Health Survey (CHS) Constructed 1937, Renovated 2005…