Tag Archives: Third Avenue

Developers Are Making Bets on a Rising East Harlem

Posted on March 20, 2013 by | Leave a comment

east-harlem-popupSharon Kahen and his partner Haim Levi are making a multimillion-dollar bet on East Harlem. The developers recently closed on a vacant parcel at 119th Street and Third Avenue where they plan to build a 60-unit market-rate rental building. Continue reading →

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Public Art In Harlem: Now! By Aaron Krach

Posted on February 8, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Krach_Aaron_Bus1Public Installation by Aaron Krach on through February, 2013 across Harlem

Can you make it here? Can you create, succeed, and support your family? Can you do of these things here in New York City in 2013? Or has the dream sung about by Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, and thousands of others been broken? Continue reading →

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116th Street And Third Avenue, 1925

Posted on February 6, 2013 by | 1 Comment

116th Street looking west from east of Third Avenue Ride On the Open Air Elevated written on the side of the El station as a trolley approaches on October 8 1925 Present day street view Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives116th Street, looking west from east on Third Avenue. “Ride On the Open Air Elevated”, is written on the side of the Elevated station or the “El station”. Continue reading →

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The Harlem Photo Studio, East Harlem, 1880-1910

Posted on December 14, 2012 by | 15 Comments

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We’re not sure when The Harlem photo studio started and ended on the South West corner of 124th Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem, but based on these photographs we think it was somewhere around the turn of the 19th century. Continue reading →

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Lexington Avenue at 116th Street, Harlem, NY, 1915

Posted on December 5, 2012 by | 5 Comments

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In 1915, when this photo was taken, Lexington Avenue at 116th Street was firmly in the Little Italy of East Harlem, also called “Doctors Row” hence the Italian in the signs on the far right above a chemist’s office. Continue reading →

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Harlem YMCA, 1893, Seventh Avenue And 125th Street

Posted on December 2, 2012 by | 19 Comments
1893 Print Harlem YMCA Building Seventh Avenue
The original Harlem YMCA on the corner of Seventh Avenue (today it is the Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.,) and 125th Street, Harlem New York City from 1893. Continue reading →

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Italian Savings Bank, East Harlem 1923

Posted on November 19, 2012 by | 2 Comments

East Harlem had about 89,000 Italian residents in the 1890′s, which made it the largest Italian neighborhood in the United States. Continue reading →

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What do you want the future of East Harlem to look like?

Posted on October 16, 2012 by | 1 Comment

Join CIVITAS, Community Board 11 and land use consultants Insight Associates and George M. Janes & Associates for a presentation and discussion of proposed land use and zoning scenarios in East Harlem. Continue reading →

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S&N Opens in East Harlem

Posted on October 2, 2012 by | 1 Comment

S&N Discount Inc has inked a deal to open in East Harlem. The new discount store will occupy 6,000 square feet in the single-story building at 2033 Third Avenue between 111th and 112th Street. Continue reading →

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