Tag Archives: Long Island

Rev. Gary Davis, The Harlem Street Singer (video)

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Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972) was a powerful gospel and folk blues singer and masterful acoustic guitarist, “truly, one of the supreme talents to emerge from the Piedmont tradition” (Bruce Bastin, Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast [Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986, p. 330). Continue reading

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What’s New: SarkuJapan Teryaki & Susha Express

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The new SarkuJapan Teryaki & Susha Express restaurant on 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., and Malcolm X Blvd., (on the north side of the street). Continue reading

HW Pick: NYPD Officer Whose Act of Kindness Went Viral: ‘My Heart Went Out to Him’

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Yahoo.com reports that the New York Police Department officer who bought a pair of boots for a homeless man with no shoes in Times Square said he never imagined the act of kindness would go viral online. Continue reading

Claude Zdanow Award Winning Harlem Recording Studio

Claude Zdanow, 24, founder and CEO of Stadiumred (stadiumredny.com) is busy turning a Harlem music recording, mixing and mastering studio … Continue reading

New York African American Chamber of Commerce Informational Session

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New York African-American Chamber of Commerce was founded on the idea of helping entrepreneurs and business owners in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island. Continue reading

Harlem Home Stresses “…Loving…like a Zen [experience]…”

In 2001, Nadja Fidelia’s life revolved around Lower Manhattan. As a managing director for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. living in Battery Park City, Ms. Fidelia was only a short walk between home and work. Continue reading

HW Pick: Somewhere Out of the Darkness By Glenn Raysor

Somewhere out of the Darkness is modern Cain and Able story of two young men who are connected by the streets and forced to consider choices which could benefit them together and apart. The final outcome has not yet been decided. The cold streets of New York City can be a tough and difficult place to survive; especially when you’re all alone. Blue, a young man raised by the best drug dealers and thugs of his ghetto neighborhood, struggles to reach the top of the street game. Fearless and determined nothing will stop Blue from reaching his goal, not even several close encounters with death. His intrepid attitude gains him many enemies on the streets, enemies that on one fateful night will change his life forever. Blade was once streetwise and moral. Continue reading

Melba Stars In New Food Network Show ‘Fat Chef’

A new batch of chefs is joining the Food Network later this month starring Harlem Chef Melba, but they won’t be doing much cooking. Instead, the group of chefs deemed “fat” will be a part of Fat Chef, a Biggest Loser-type program, focusing on helping twelve professional chefs lose weight while improving their mental and physical health. It doesn’t sound like the show will be competitive, though, a-la-Biggest Loser. Continue reading