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Harlem’s 125th Street is getting a Red Lobster?

Posted on February 10, 2012 by | 4 Comments

125th Street in Harlem is like no other street in the world. It just opened a new 24 hour IHOP, it already has a H&M, Starbucks, Applebee’s, Atmos, a Nike store, the Magic Johnson Theatre. Continue reading →

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Harlem History: Gladys Bentley And Gladys’ Clam House (video)

Posted on September 23, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Gladys Bentley was a 250 pound woman dressed in men’s clothes (including a signature white top hat and tails), played piano and sang her own “raunchy” lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting outrageously with women in the audience in the 1920′s. Continue reading →

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A Harlem Corner: Walker to Burrows

Posted on July 30, 2010 by | 2 Comments
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Rumor has it that iconic Harlem resident and fashion designer Stephen Burrows and a longtime business associate are starting a boutique hotel by renovating a historic space at 76 Edgecombe (at the corner of West 138th, and St. Nicholas Park) into a live in and bed & breakfast. Continue reading →

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Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater

Posted on March 31, 2010 by | 4 Comments

Blog Harlem Bespoke reveals the renderings for the upcoming Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater, at 5th Avenue and 124th Street, a renovation of the existing 1969 bandshell by Cooper, Robertson, & Partners. Continue reading →

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Kuti, Flo and Beer Garden in Harlem

Posted on March 30, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Well, I’m a little slow here.  I took these pictures more than a month ago intending to write about them.  While I dithered Harlem Bespoke wrote.  Little did they know that it was all in my plan to get them to do the work! Continue reading →

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A Loft Hotel Hipping Up Harlem

Posted on March 3, 2010 by | 1 Comment

One big piece of Harlem’s hot development corridor of Frederick Douglass Boulevard is the new Aloft hotel opening this summer at 124th Street. A check of the brand’s website shows that the opening of the 12-story building—which wraps around an old carriage house— Continue reading →

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Muddy Waters Cafe in Harlem

Posted on September 4, 2009 by | Leave a comment

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After a couple of false starts, the anticipated Muddy Waters Cafe (on ACP/7th Avenue and 129th) seems to have a more precise opening date which happens to be this month. We walked by yesterday and the store still had the brown paper up on the windows but this time had a small sign posted to update folks passing by. The thing that makes us wonder on the time line is that the store front never had any signage made or awnings set up on the exterior of the new building that it inhabits. As with many of the openings this summer, the store signs often go up first before the actual store opens. Let’s cross our fingers.

See Muddy Waters Cafe.

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