Tag: St. Nicholas Park
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Photoville in St. Nicholas Park
Make sure to head over to St. Nicholas Park – St. Nicholas Ave. and 133rd Street – to see a fantastic display of very early photographs of Black Americans during and immediately after the Civil War. The display is hung on the basketball courts’ fencing, and faces St. Nicholas Avenue. All of the photographs are…
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View of Harlem from City College
Here are a pair of views of Harlem (looking eastward) from St. Nicholas Park (City College): The photographer is Robert L. Bracklow and the images were taken on August 14, 1909 – 113 years ago today. Note the gardening that is going on in St. Nicholas Park: And the laundry out drying: To see the…
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Housing Units in New Buildings Since 2010
Source: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf Harlem’s Jewish Past The Jewish presence in Harlem before The Depression has given us a number of landmarked structures that have (often) since been converted into churches. One of the most elegant of these buildings is, of course, the Mount Olivet Baptist Church which was once Temple Israel. But Jewish Harlem had more…
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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…
