Tag Archives: 116th Street

A Flea Market Is Coming To La Marqueta

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East Harlem’s La Marqueta wants to go beyond food.

Dimitri Gatanas, founder of East Harlem’s Urban Garden Center, has created Flea Marqueta, which will feature dozens of stalls for East Harlem retailers, artists, and craftsman in the space under the Metro North tracks at E. 116th St. Continue reading

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Annual Juneteenth -King Fest Celebration in Harlem

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Saturday, June 15, 2013
20thAnnual Juneteenth -King Fest Celebration
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116th Street At Broadway Subway Station In Harlem, 1910 (update)

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The first subway station on “The hill” looking north at Broadway and 116th Street is best seen in this photograph taken from an apartment unit in Morningside Heights area of Harlem in 1906. Continue reading

248-254 West 116th Street in Harlem, 1950′s

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A street view taken looking north at 248-254 West 116th Street, between St. Nicholas and Frederick Douglass Avenues in the 1950′s. Continue reading

116th Street At Eight Avenue in Harlem, 1900

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Looking West towards Columbia across 116th Street towards Eight Avenue (aka St. Nicholas Avenue) around the early 1900′s in West Harlem. Continue reading

116th Street, West From Eight Avenue, NY 1880-1920′s

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A wonderful photograph looking west on 116th Street looking towards Columbia, in the Morningside Heights area of West Harlem, NY. Continue reading

116th Street And Third Avenue, 1925

116th Street  looking west from east of Third Avenue   Ride On the Open Air Elevated   written on the side of the El station as a trolley approaches on October 8  1925  Present day street view   Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives116th Street, looking west from east on Third Avenue. “Ride On the Open Air Elevated”, is written on the side of the Elevated station or the “El station”. Continue reading

Broadway and West 104th Street, West Harlem, 1902

Broadway-and-West-104th-Street-nycThis wonderful black and white photograph, was taken in 1902, on a busy day looking south on Broadway and 104th Street in West Harlem.   Continue reading

Broadway and West 115th St., Harlem 1937

Broadway-and-W-115th-Street-nyc-0075The view north along the Broadway center mall in 1937, you can see the main gates of Columbia University on the right and Barnard College and Riverside Church on the left.   Continue reading

East Harlem Stand Up Town Hall On Discrimminating Policing

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