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>
  

Harlem World

Harlem newsboy 1943 Photo by Gordon Parks, from the Library of Congress

• Anyone else ever notice the twins on 125th always dressed alike? I see them on the bus sometimes. Here they are wearing matching fur coats <Sekou Writes>
  
• American Youth Hostel on 104th An Affordable Place To Stay In New York <Harlem Live>
  
• Black Portraits in Bold Face; Barkley L. Hendricks at the Studio Museum
  <The Harlem Eye>
  
• South Harlem (?) in the news (again) <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• Future residents of Ellington on the Park, 130 Bradhurst Avenue, have started a Google discussion group <Ellington on the Park>
  
• Artist's views from his window capture – and help – a neighborhood
  <Manhattan Times (pdf)>