Tag Archives: Sugar Hill

Colonial Park Pool, Central Harlem, 1936

Colonial Park Pool and Bathhouse Central Harlem

The Colonial Park Pool in Central Harlem at 145th Street, that opened in 1911 (this photograph was taken during new construction in 1936).

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Yayoi Kusama Louis Vuitton Tote Bag

Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM - Yayoi KusamaYayoi Kusama’s reinterpretation of the Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM leather tote in Monogram waves is supremely dragmatic for true Harlem divas. Continue reading

Harlem Celebrates President Obama’s Reelection (photos)

Here are a series of photographs from around the web of Harlem celebrating President Barack Obama’s re-election on November 6th, 2012, the one above is from ABC News at Londel’s in Sugar Hill. Continue reading

Marva Trotter Louis, Harlem Fashion Model, 1936

Harlem’s Marva Trotter Louis, the Chicago stenographer turned model, singer and the first wife of boxing legend Joe Louis and had two children (daughter Jacqueline in 1943 and son Joseph Louis Barrow, Jr. in 1947). Continue reading

HW Q & A: With Harlem Artist Allicette Torres

Allicette Torres

The Harlem born visual artist whose work is in the upcoming Harlem Art Walking Tour 2012 in October as she shoots her art, defines what Harlem is and knows that Harlem isn’t discovered in her world of Harlem. Continue reading

HW Pick: Terry Baker Mulligan’s “Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem”

Riverside Theatre presents: Terry Baker Mulligan

Reading from & Signing Copies of Her New Memoir

Using Harlem’s famous cultural institutions and memorable characters as her backdrop, Terry Baker Mulligan writes joyously about weathering adolescence, while history unfolds around her in the legendary neighborhood called Sugar Hill. Continue reading

Harlem to Preserve Brownstones By Creating height Limits

Hundreds of New York City’s most glorious brownstones and majestic townhouses will be protected from developers and preserved for generations under a major rezoning proposed for West Harlem. Continue reading

Memories of Sugar Hill – NY Times

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

Learning From Malcolm, Nearly 50 Years Later

I have been reading since my youngest years, consuming novels of fiction and tales every  chance available, all in an effort to broaden my imagination and range of knowledge alike. But it is with due humility that at 23-years-old, after so much time reading voraciously, no story has ever moved me so much, so poignantly and so emotionally, as The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Continue reading

In Sugar Hill, Harlem’s World of Black Talent

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In a time of discrimination and segregation, young people growing up in Sugar Hill in Harlem right before and after World War II found success and inspiration all around them. Explore the people who lived in Sugar Hill and hear the stories of those who grew up there at Harlem history.