Tag Archives: 125th Street Business Improvement District

Whole Foods Plans New Stores for Harlem

Harlem‘s main shopping strip on 125th Street has attracted an H&M, an Old Navy and a smattering of trendy eateries, but the area still doesn’t have a major grocery store. Now it is getting a Whole Foods. Continue reading

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White Collar Filming on 125th Street In Harlem

From 5:00 pm on Wednesday, July 18th, to 5:00 pm on Thursday, July 19th, crews will be filming White Collar on Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard. Continue reading

Harlem Gets a Makeover and Danny Simmons Meets the CULTURE CRASHERS

This article is courtesy of our partner with Harlem Arts Alliance HAA
The famed 125th Street is getting a makeover but to see the results you will have to look upward. Last week, the 125th Street Business Improvement District, the Harlem Arts Alliance and Harlem Community Development Corporation unveiled the new banner designs for the fourth annual “BID on Culture” banner program. Continue reading

Harlem Banners Displayed By 125th St. BID

Justin West grew up in Harlem, and he never imagined his artwork would appear on the street he’s walked up and down hundreds of times since he was a kid. Continue reading

Harlem Businesses Partner to Drive Tourism

It started out as a way to raise money for the holiday lights on 125th Street in the middle of a recession. Now a collection of Harlem community groups is banding together to promote businesses in the neighborhood.

The Promotional Alliance of Harlem consists of the 125th Street Business Improvement District, Harlem Business Alliance, Harlem Park to Park and the Aloft Harlem Hotel. Continue reading

2012 “BID On Culture” Banner Competition

The 125th Street Business Improvement District, Harlem Arts Alliance, and Harlem Community Development Corporation have extended the deadline for submissions to the 2012 “BID On Culture” Banner Competition!
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Harlem Vendors on 125th Street Cleared For Obama Visit

“They cleaned up the block because the President is coming,”… “… You don’t see any vendors.”

A crackdown on unlicensed vendors along 125th Street last week has some merchants worried that they were moved to make room for President Obama’s appearance at the Apollo Thursday. Continue reading

Emmitt Smith’s 125th Street Hotel Moving Ahead?

The president of NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith’s development company said the plan to build a hotel on 125th Street and Lenox Avenue is in the final phase of financing but he doesn’t know when the development will be ready to break ground. Continue reading

Harlem Holiday Lights More Than Meets The Eye

Sparkling Harlem. It was as if Scrooge had invaded New York’s Harlem neighborhood. Or so residents implied. Facing an impossibly tight budget, the board that oversees the neighborhood’s main thoroughfare, 125th Street, made a difficult decision: It cut funding for holiday lights. Continue reading

The Harlem Fightback Continues

(“What is needed in any battle is a game plan that is popular, unemotional and longterm” anonymous.)

Whether it be in Occupied Territories in Palestine, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, or right here in New York City, the world is witnessing a new wave of corporate seizure and destruction of already scare affordable housing. Continue reading