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116th Street At Eight Avenue in Harlem, 1900

Posted on April 15, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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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 →

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Harlem Is Home For Upscale Retailers

Posted on February 28, 2013 by | Leave a comment

FAITH HOPE CONSOLOTwo new retail tenants on the once desolate strip of Eighth Avenue in Harlem are continuing the shopping makeover of the one-time ‘American Gangster’ neighborhood. Continue reading →

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Mayme Hatcher Johnson, Wife Of Harlem’s “Bumpy” Johnson

Posted on January 25, 2013 by | Leave a comment
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Mayme Hatcher Johnson, a native of North Carolina who spent most of her life in Harlem. Mrs. Johnson was born in 1914 in NC, and moved to New York City in 1938, where she found work as a waitress in a club owned by singer/actress Ethel Waters. Continue reading →

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Harlem’s ‘American Gangster’ available on HBO

Posted on August 10, 2009 by | Leave a comment

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American Gangster (rated: 3 of 5 worlds)

(HBO on Comcast) The director Ridley Scott and the screenwriter Steve Zaillian take us back to an era when a drug lord had some class, the drug lord being the real-life ’70s Harlem kingpin Frank Lucas. The movie mixes boilerplate crime-epic frills with pointed observations about a black male rising to the top of a vast business dominated by Italians. It’s a kitschy entertainment with an iffy moral streak. Denzel Washington (above) refuses to turn Lucas into anything more complex than upstanding. Russell Crowe has just as much screen time as the drug cop on his tail. (R; runs through Aug. 10) – Wesley Morris

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