Harlem History
Photographer Peter Cooper took this photograph on Lenox Avenue of the historic jazz club the Lenox Lounge this morning while walking by. Continue reading
Someone 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
Posted in crime, HArlem crime
Tagged Bronx, New York, New York City, New York City Police Department, New York Times, Numbers game, Upper Manhattan
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
Posted in Art, Books, books, visual art
Tagged Bronx Museum of the Arts, Carton, Harlem, Laura Carton, Los Angeles, Metro Areas, New York, New York City, New York City Metro, New York Times, Portland, Stripped, United States
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
Posted in Harlem cause, HW Hero
Tagged DePrimo, facebook, Long Island, New York City Police Department, New York Times, NYPD, Skecher, Time square, Times Square
The earliest means of transportation around Harlem River Harbor were sporting and trade boats moored on West Harlem piers. Continue reading
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.
Posted in Harlem movie
Tagged Alan Berliner, Cousin, Family Album, Film, New York City, New York Times, United States, WIDE AWAKE
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
Posted in Harlem dance, Harlem fashion
Tagged America's Best Dance Crew, butch queens, Chi Chi Mizrahi Unbothered-Cartier, Harlem, Jennie Livingston, Jose Gutierez, Kiki ball, Labeija, Luis Camacho, Madonna, Mother Trace Mizrahi, New York, New York City, New York Times, New Yorker, Ninja, Paper Magazine, Paris, Paris Is Burning, Pony Zion Garçon, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Tyra Allure, United States, Xtravaganza
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
Posted in Dance, Harlem dance
Tagged Art, Danspace Project, Harlem, Harrell, Judson Dance Theater, Judson Memorial Church, New York City, New York Times, Yvonne Rainer
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