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HW Pick: You Should Really Write A Book, By Regina Brooks in Harlem

Posted on October 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment
Regina Brooks is the founder and president of Serendipity Literary Agency LLC, and represents a diverse base of award-winning authors in Adult and Young Adult fiction, nonfiction, and Children’s Literature. Continue reading →
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How to Buy Jeans Harlem Fashion Tips (video)

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The Hamilton Bank, The First Bank In Harlem

Posted on November 19, 2011 by | 2 Comments

The Hamilton Bank in Harlem at 1707 and 1709 Amsterdam Avenue (Between 144th & 145th St.), was founded on April 7th, 1899. The bank was the first in Harlem above 125th Street at the time. Continue reading →

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Memories of Sugar Hill – NY Times

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In a time of discrimination and segregation, young people growing up in an area of Harlem known as Sugar Hill right before and after World War II found success and inspiration all around them. Continue reading →

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Community Board Letter to NY Times Article on August12th

Posted on August 19, 2011 by | Leave a comment

CITY OF NEW YORK

Manhattan Community Board 10

215 West 125th Street, 4th Floor— New York , NY 10027

T: 212-749-3105   F: 212-662-4215

August 18, 2011

Dear Editor:

I write on behalf of Manhattan Community Board 10 regarding the paper’s August 12, 2011 article by John Leland, entitled “A Summer Idyll, and Then Three Bullets.”  We believe the article contained misinformation and unfairly portrayed Community Board 10, and request the paper correct the story.

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One Murder In Harlem On July 4th

Posted on July 5, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Crime

2010_07_july4nypd.jpg One person was killed in Harlem yesterday. According to the Daily News, the first incident was before 1 a.m. in Harlem, when “Edward Meyers, 44, of Queens, was stabbed to death at W. 112th St. and Lenox Ave.” Continue reading →

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Tyra Banks / T Screen Test Films

Posted on October 23, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Tyra Banks on fame, her career and what every model should be equipped with.

NYTimes.com/TMagazine on youtube.com

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New Hard Times: Peter G. Holden

Posted on April 7, 2009 by | Leave a comment

News

Harlem resident Peter G. Holden, 92, grew up in the Jim Crow South during the Great Depression…

…He talks with his daughter and granddaughter about how communities pull together during hard times.

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East Harlem Meat Packing District?

Posted on October 30, 2008 by | 2 Comments

When the NY Times wrote about the newly resurgent area of 12th St. in West Harlem that runs along the Riverside Drive viaduct -which now features three nightclubs/restaurants seen in the photo to the right- they spent some time selling the area to it’s readers as the newest hot spot, describing it as “pulsating” “something fresh” and noting the clubs are the attracting celebrities such as Keith Sweat and Tracy Morgan, as well as “long lines of curvy women.”

What the area was lacking however was it’s own brand name along the lines of The Meat Packing District, Soho, or the like, that could help make it marketable for real estate agents, developers, and public relation flacks. And of course, promoters who go by the name Blaze.

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