Tag Archives: New York Times

Construction Has Started On The Historic Lenox Lounge

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Photographer Peter Cooper took this photograph on Lenox Avenue of the historic jazz club the Lenox Lounge this morning while walking by.  Continue reading

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Relics of the Bygone (and the Illegal) in Harlem

crimescene-popupSomeone knocked on the door of the basement apartment on East 115th Street on March 13. A man let him in. A detective watched, and arrested the man who had opened the door. Continue reading

From Harlem To Hollywood, Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay High Price

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In the end, the money that towns across America gave General Motors did not matter. Continue reading

HW Pick: Stripped By Laura Carton

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Based in New York and Harlem studio artist Laura Carton created the photographs in ‘Stripped’ by downloading a variety of pornographic images from the Internet, removing the bodies and then digitally reconstructing the backgrounds from the existing evidence. 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

Sports Boating Rowboats, Harlem River Pier, 1895

The earliest means of transportation around Harlem River Harbor were sporting and trade boats moored on West Harlem piers. Continue reading

The Experiment: Alan Berliner Curated by Lorenzo Gattorna and Peter Buntaine

The Experiment, for its third installment of experimental documentary cinema encompassing a serial nature, is pleased to present a retrospective screening of works by NYC native, Alan Berliner.

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Harlem Voguers Heating Up The House (video)

We used photographs of Harlem voguers from a Paper Magazine article titled the New York Ballroom Scene Is Heating Up – No Shade for their October 2012 issue. Continue reading

‘Judson Church Is Ringing in Harlem’ at St. Mark’s

We audience members are always getting attached to companies and individual performers — it’s one of the deeply human pleasures (and pains: life spans in dance can be so brief) to be gotten from following a live art form. Continue reading

At Home in Harlem’s Apollo Theater

Billy Mitchell, the resident historian and official tour guide for the Apollo Theater in Harlem, started working at the famous music hall in 1965, when he was 15. Continue reading