Tag: Parks Department

  • Playstreets: Summer of 1968

    Playstreets: Summer of 1968

    The city’s Parks Department opened a new photography exhibition at Central Park’s Arsenal Gallery that displays more than 40 archived photographs from the department’s collection. Called “Streets In Play: Katrina Thomas, NYC Summer 1968,” the exhibit features images taken by the late photographer Katrina Thomas, who in 1968 was hired by NYC Mayor John Lindsay and tasked with capturing the city’s summer initiative, “Playstreets,” in which…

  • The Lee Building

    The Lee Building

    Founded in 1900, Lee Brothers Storage & Van Co. – a furniture, storage, and moving company – was initially located on 125th Street near 3rd avenue. In 1913 they moved to the northeast corner of 125th Street and Park Ave. into a building they did not build but leased. However, after 9 years in 1922 they purchased…

  • Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities at Parks

    Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities at Parks

    Happy Spring! These NYC Parks job opportunities (below) made possible by the recent federal reinvestment bill are open to people of all ages and require no experience. CAN YOU & YOUR ____BE LITTER AMBASSADORS FOR OUR HISTORIC HARLEM PARKS?(Jackie Robinson/Marcus Garvey/Morningside/St Nicholas)NYC Parks is looking for weekend volunteers we call * Litter Ambassadors * who can greet park…

  • Spring Clean-Up, Today!

    Got the itch to do some spring cleaning? Then meet up with Uptown Grand Central TODAY to spring clean on a massive scale. TODAY Saturday, April 10, marks the kick-off of Uptown’s spring cleaning season, with the first of our warm-weather community clean-ups along the East 125th Street corridor. We’re glad to be doing it in partnership with the Sanitation Foundation (who,…

  • Harlem Community Art Center

    It is hard to imagine the federal government funding an art center in Harlem today, but in the depression, the Democratic administration did just that. The Harlem Community Art Center was located in the building that now has Cohen Fashion Optical on the ground floor – at the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue.…

  • HNBA Zoom Meeting on Tuesday (7pm)

    On Tuesday at 7pm we’ll meet on Zoom to learn more about strategies for buying a home, refinancing, and more ways to build generational wealth in these complex times. We will also have a candidate for Manhattan DA – Tali Farhadian Weinstein – join us to talk about how she wants to reform the DA’s…

  • Help Our Trees

    As the recent hurricane showed, our street trees take a huge beating in extraordinary events like Isaias and in the world of day-to-day life on the streets of New York. You may not know this but the moment a tree is planted in the sidewalk, the open patch of dirt and anything contained in it…