Tag: Postcards
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CUNY’s East Harlem Restaurant Guide
CUNY has come up with a somewhat pedantic restaurant guide for East Harlem. They’ve covered most of the bases, but oddly have some restaurants that haven’t been open for 2 years now and others are located firmly in Central Harlem. It seems surprising that they didn’t check whether or not the restaurants were still in…
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EH in PS1
The current show at MOMA’s PS1 – Greater New York – has a number of Harlem artists/images on display. One particularly great collection is a wall of photos from Hiram Maristany, who filmed the unrest and revolution in East Harlem during the Young Lords Era of 1969-70. Maristany was born in East Harlem and became…
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A Man Is Known By the Candy He Sends
A commercial postcard came across my radar recently. Shuylers Candy Store was located at 150 West 125th Street where the Adam Clayton Powell State Building now stands. Note the rounded glass display cases. America Day Nursery This postcard from East Harlem – 354 East 121st Street – shows a day nursery with a somewhat teetering…
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Harlem Postcards
Every year the Studio Museum in Harlem celebrates our community as a beacon of African-American history and culture. The Studio Museum, along with other cultural landmarks such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner, at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue, serve as popular postcard images for visitors and residents. The Studio…
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Mount Morris Park
Here are 3 great photos of Marcus Garvey Park (formerly Mount Morris Park) from Columbia University’s collection of images. Below is a postcard from 1905 on the east side of the park, looking south towards where the basketball courts are today: Mount Morris Park was renamed in honor of Marcus Garvey in 1973, the park…
