Tag: Uptown Grand Central

  • 119th Street and 5th Avenue

    119th Street and 5th Avenue

    A great photo from 1992 of Bob’s Newsstand, taken at 5th Avenue and 119th Street. It’s a little hard to see, but Bob is standing to the left of the door. Here is that intersection, today: The black and white photo is taken by Katsu Naito and is featured in a Guardian photo essay: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/sep/04/katsu-naito-harlem-1990s-new-york-photo-essay…

  • Harlem Toile de Jouy Pattern Stoneware and Cast Iron Dutch Oven

    Harlem Toile de Jouy Pattern Stoneware and Cast Iron Dutch Oven

    Le Creuset, a cookware and kitchenware brand that’s been in existence for nearly a century, introduced a new line – the Harlem Toile de Jouy collection. The artist whose work is now on stoneware and a Dutch oven in the collection, is Sheila Bridges. Her vision was to use the collaboration with Le Creuset to…

  • Party on Park Next Sunday, October 1st

    Party on Park Next Sunday, October 1st

    Make sure to head to Park Avenue on Sunday, October 1st, from noon until 4:00 PM to join in the joy, the festivities, and the celebration of Harlem. The event will be from 125th Street, all the way down to 111th Streets. Activities, food, music, giveaways, information, and so much more. HNBA will have a…

  • Jobs Not Guns

    Jobs Not Guns

    Last month, Amsterdam News had a great article on how Uptown Grand Central is using $20,000 from the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, to fund clean-up around the Metro-North station and Northern East Harlem as a whole. “As part of our comprehensive gun violence strategy, we are focused on prevention efforts to keep young people engaged…

  • Lenox and 116th Street

    Lenox and 116th Street

    A few images from the intersection of Lenox and 116th Street. The first (above) shows the south facing view today. Below shows the same view from 1901 and the construction of what is now the 2/3 subway line: Looking northward, today’s view shows a building the is now a charter school on the north-west corner:…

  • Under The Tracks

    Under The Tracks

    (from Uptown Grand Central’s newsletter) “The overhead lights in the back of a public plaza in East Harlem, mounted on a rusty viaduct that supports the Metro-North Railroad, were not working. And Carey King was panicking. Ms. King, who runs the plaza as the director of Uptown Grand Central, a nonprofit group formed by local…

  • Radio

    Radio

    In the photo below, a group of men listen to a radio, mounted on a box. Their semicircular gathering allows the camera to take in a vignette with the central object (the radio) in full view – all of which suggests a staged photograph. The image was taken in the 1930s during the depression. This…

  • Holiday Saturdays in East Harlem

    Holiday Saturdays in East Harlem

    The Harlem Night Market is back this holiday season! So mark your calendar for three weekends of fun, food & winter shopping at the historic La Marqueta. Come through to support local entrepreneurs and go home with some of the best eats, drinks & gifts in the neighborhood. D.J.s Stormin’ Norman and Ted Smooth will be bringing us back to the…

  • An HNBA Conversation With The Safe Injection Site On East 126th St.

    An HNBA Conversation With The Safe Injection Site On East 126th St.

    Make sure to join the Tuesday, November 8th, HNBA monthly meeting at 7:00 PM.  We’ve invited the Executive Director of OnPoint – the organization that runs the safe injection site on East 126th Street near Lexington.  This injection site has been in operation for almost a year, and this is your chance to learn what they do, who…

  • WNYC Reports on The Amazing Work Of Uptown Grand Central

    WNYC Reports on The Amazing Work Of Uptown Grand Central

    This morning WNYC and Gothamist reported on the amazing work that Uptown Grand Central and the clean-up crew do to keep the East 125th Street corridor clean and vibrant. Carey King is quoted at length, as is Jason McDavid who cleans and supervises much of the cleaning activity that works under and around the 125th…

  • Tito Puente

    Tito Puente

    Uptown Grand Central does it again. Another great mural on E. 124, between Madison and Park. Allison Ruiz and BC1 created this mural of the mambo king Tito Puente. Uptown Grand Central’s Grandscale Mural Project is located on 125th & 124th streets from Third to Madison, and along Third, Lexington and Park avenues. Hashtag #GrandscaleMuralProject.…

  • Uptown Grand Central

    Uptown Grand Central

    Wanna talk trash with us? The NYC Department of Sanitation will roll with resources for a community cleanup this Saturday, July 30, from 12-2 p.m. DSNY will bring their van full of brooms, trashcans and trash-pickers — and we’ll have the chance to not only pitch in, but talk trashcans and basket collection with Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala. Plus learn about needle pickup & the…