Tag: The National Urban League

  • Harlem’s Museum of Civil Rights

    Harlem’s Museum of Civil Rights

    The National Urban League has chosen Jennifer Scott to be the founding executive director and lead curator of The Urban Civil Rights Museum being built on West 125th Street between ACP and Lenox. The new museum will center the Urban League’s Empowerment Center in Harlem and house the NUL’s headquarters along with 170 units of…

  • Pathmark Site and Target Coming to West 125th Street

    A new rendering is out for the Extell project that will replace the old Pathmark building: It’s hare to imagine retail here, given the M35 bus, and the tenants they may be after are social service agencies who deal with the issues in the immediate neighborhood. Further down 125th Street, Target looks like a prospective…

  • National Urban League Plans to Use $188M For 125th Street Headquarters in Harlem

    The National Urban League is moving along with planning for a 17-story project that will include affordable rental housing, a civil rights museum, office space for community groups, retail space, and their headquarters/conference. The development, known as the Urban League Empowerment Center, will replace a low-slung retail building at 121 West 125th Street and a four-story parking garage…