Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church

A sign from the late 1960’s addressing ‘dope gangsters’:

is a part of a collection of signs on East Harlem’s Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church.

The brownstone details next to the church may look familiar, they are part of the Corn Exchange building – 85 East 125th Street. Below is the former location of the Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church:

To read the obituary of the pastor who ran this 125th Street church, see:

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/04/obituaries/rev-oberia-dempsey-is-dead-fought-drug-abuse-in-harlem.html

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