Tag Archives: Seventh Avenue

Hubert Julian, Aviator, Harlem (1897 – 1983)

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Harlem Style

Hubert Julian, arrived in Harlem in 1921.  Born in Trinidad in 1897, he had migrated to Canada in 1914, where he claimed to have learned to pilot an aeroplane and served as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Air Force, and came from there to Harlem, New York.  Continue reading

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Community Health Fair 2013 For Harlem Residents

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On Saturday, June 8, 2013, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Grace Gospel Chapel will host a free health fair for Harlem residents at 102 W. 133rd Street, (between Lenox Ave. and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd).  Continue reading

125th Street Looking West in Harlem, 1940′s

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Harlem’s Main Street

The photograph looks northwest on a sunny day across 125th Street towards St. Nicholas Avenue, we think shot from one of the floors in the Hotel Theresa at 7th Avenue (aka Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., today). Continue reading

Sufi Abdul Hamid, The “Black Hitler” Of Harlem

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Sufi Abdul Hamid (born Eugene Brown) (January 6, 1903 in Lowell, Massachusetts – July 30, 1938) was an African-American religious and labor leader, and among the first African converts to Islam, accused of Anti-Semitism. Continue reading

The Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle, 1920′s

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The History Continues

The Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle on West 128th Street and 7th Avenue (aka Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.,), 1920′s. Continue reading

Edgecombe Sanitarium in Harlem, NY, 1925

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In 1925 the Edgecombe Sanitarium was opened after a merger with the Booker T. Washington Sanitarium on 7th Avenue between 138th and 139th Streets in 1920, offering inpatient treatment for those with tuberculosis.

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Harlem Man Charged With Girlfriend’s Murder

bldgmurder086fb04b-fb4a-4fe9-bf1e-68a069a79212Police arrest a Manhattan man whose girlfriend’s body was found inside a 55 gallon drum. Continue reading

Harlem Shacks On Fifth Avenue And 101st Street, 1894

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Affordable housing has always been an issue in Harlem, here are shacks on Fifth Avenue and 101st Street in Central Harlem on the East Harlem Central Harlem border in 1894. Continue reading

Harlem Looking Southwest Towards Morningside, 2013

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A Central Harlem photograph looking south from 125th Street and Seventh Avenue in the Hotel Theresa with Columbia and to the left Morningside and downtown Manhattan in the background. Continue reading

Police Find Dead Body Inside Harlem Apartment

mndoafound88fa489a-f8ac-4f14-9b00-3a4289e2b467Police are investigating the discovery of a body inside a barrel in Harlem. Continue reading