Harlem World

• The George Washington Houses in East Harlem lived up to their reputation for having the worst elevator breakdowns Tuesday when firefighters had to rescue yet another trapped resident. <NY Daily News>
• Jazz Feet Part 1 <Sekou Writes>
• Awesomely, Skateboards Rule the Heights! <The Gay Recluse>
• A reader at Trainjotting wants to know, Is it safe to ride the 6 train in Harlem? <Trainjotting>
• Major League Baseball Deal in Harlem Strikes Out <Uptown Flavor>
  
• Green Rental Breaks Ground in East Harlem <Globe St>
  
• 8 reviews of popular eating spots in Harlem <Yelp.com>
• ...And one foodie ads their own opinion upon hearing word of a new 'exlusive VIP only lounge', "And they say there’s no progress in this country! Just twenty years ago, who would have thought that Harlem would have a douchey, members-only VIP lounge where dissipated oligarchs can pay $500 for bottles of shitty vodka? <The Feedbag
• Is FDB becoming the restaurant row in Harlem? <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• He wakes up everyday at 4 a.m., completes his morning routine, and leaves his home near LaGuardia airport so he can open up his newsstand down at the subway stop on 116th Street and Broadway by 6 a.m. <Columbia Spectator>
  

Why Are Four Cameras On The Corner 125th And Federick Douglas BLVD Focused On The United House Of Prayer For All People Church?

The top right photo shows the corner of 125th and Frederick Douglas BLVD as photographed from the SW corner of 125th St. You can see a large brick building housing a Duane Read on the NE corner, and on the SE corner a building housing a Capital One Bank on the ground floor, and the United House of Prayer on the second floor.

Slightly befuddling, there are a number of cameras on top of the red brick building that seem to be trained directly at the widows of the church across the street, The United House of Prayer For All People, which I first noticed early in the summer.

The photo above right displays the south side of the brick building which faces the church, with the five cameras visible on the roof, with one pointing towards the sidewalk on the NW side of it's building; the other four cameras appear to be trained directly at the windows of the church on the second floor across the street.

It's possible the cameras are recording the sidewalk, the general area, the bank, a combination of all three. As well, a building the church owned was the target of an arsonist in 1995 which killed eight people, a fire the police surmise was set in retaliation in response to the church's effort to evict The Record Shack, a long standing record store in a building the church owns, an effort which went on for years recently culminating in The Record Shack being forcefully evicted, which opens up the possibility that the church itself arranged for the cameras to be placed there as a means of recording any further possible criminal activity directed at the church. A call to Church headquarters was not returned.

I wonder if anyone can date the cameras? Did any of you make notice of them years ago? Anyone hear why they were installed?

Without knowing who owns the cameras, what they are recording, and why, they remain a source of suspicion as to their intent. The building housing the church is pictured to the right.

Harlem World

Morningside park waterfall in Harlem

• Harvard For Harlem Families <Harlem World Magazine>
• Columbia Contemplates Cutbacks Due to Financial Crisis <Daily Intel>
• A blog devoted to the dogs of Washington Heights and their people. (!!)
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• "Aggressive, cheesy and overpowering - just like its inspiration - "Paolo" is not suitable if you're going out on a hit." <NY Post>
  
• Harlem Flo (floral atelier) A great little addition to the up and coming new businesses on Frederick Douglass Blvd. <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• The Abyssinian Baptist Church Men’s Ministry Presents Jazz at Abyssinian
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Harlem World

Windblown Bronze, photograph by CarbonNYC.

• Harlem Hybrid Takes A Quick Tour Thru Manhattanville <Harlem Hybrid>
  
• Rev Earl Kooperkamp: Look to 125th Street, Not Main Street <Columbia Spectator>
  
• Columbia Stages to Present The Canterbury Tales Starting Nov.13 <Broadway World>
  
• Basketball Club formed to serve the needs of Harlem teenagers has put out a call for help in finding space to play once a week <City Year New York Corps>
  
• Reports that Ottomanelli Brothers' restaurant in East Harlem is open, and with low prices. <Eater>
  
• "The East Harlem market, where small condo buildings are popping up before we can even question whether or not anyone wants to buy there, is now looking even more volatile." <Curbed>
  
• FDB btw 112 and 113 might be getting another eatery to join all the other new additions n that area. <Harlem Condo Life>
  

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NFC all day, North West side of ACBD Station at 145th

• Bus Station at 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard is missing something
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• Photos of the newly opened Harlem Piers Bike Path <Flickr>
• Malik-16 pays homage to his block with a new video <YouTube>
• Some interesting stats on the recent statistical changes in the median sale price for homes in Harlem <Hart Family>
  
• "Harlem finally has a Trbeca style Loft to call its very own!" Sure, if you consider a small unremarkable one bedroom a "Trbeca style Loft" then yah, ok.
  <Village Voice Backpage.com>
  

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