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• Germans celebrated Germany
  
• Harlem preacher James Manning has words for Obama
• Multiple shootings mar the annual African-American Day Parade in Harlem, and someone gets video footage
• Resident of nyc would like to "welcome you to the fukn neighborhood."
• Bailout=Bullshit
  

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Bailout=Bullshit

Bailout=Bullshit, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein.

Yesterday afternoon NYC residents held a protest against the bailout yesterday on Wall St., one of many spontaneous protests held throughout the country, organized via blogs and email online. NY1 reports "The rally was one of 220 demonstrations in dozens of states across the country."

Rank and file blue collar workers were also on hand, as well as Jesse Jackson, and Union leaders. Reuters reported, "Hard hats, transit workers, machinists, teachers and other labor unionists railed against the U.S. government’s proposed bailout of Wall Street on Thursday in a protest steps from the New York Stock Exchange."

NY Mag has video here.

There are photos of the protest up on Flickr, here, here, and here.

More video of the protest at YouTube, here, and here. (lots more words photos and video there and elsewhere)

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Harlem World

• Harlem Forum Tonight:The Politics of Race, Class & Gender in the 2008 Presidential Election <Google Groups/Black Left Unity>
  
• Art Show Examines Harlem Gentrification <City Room>
  
• Female Columbia College Student Is Assaulted On 114th Street <Columbia Spectator>
  
• Is The Hudson Swimmable? New Partnership Tests The Waters <New York Stories>
  
• Women of the Harlem Renaissance. "They wrote poetry, managed literary journals— and threw the parties— that launched New York's great social revolution of the 1920s." <FM 89 KUAR>
  
• Food Fight: Harlem Forum Debates Supermarket Sweeps <Runnin' Scared>
  
• The Neighborhood Retail Alliance is covering the issue as well
  
• BET show Harlem Heights is currently looking to replace two of its cast members. They are in need of interesting, career focused men and women, age 25-30 that live uptown and are interested in being part of a show that will show a different side of Harlemites. <Republica Update>

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Put Your City On

Photogs and model, Bryant Park Fashion Week

• Boobs <I, New York>
• The Man in the Box, Revisited <City Room>
• The Fight for New York Televisions <Gotham Gazette>
• Project Brings Seating to Subway System <Gothamist>
• Is It Time to Swap the 2nd Ave Subway for Bus Rapid Transit? <Streetsblog>
• 46 Questions for the 46th New York Film Festival <WNYC/Art.Cult>
• While most straphangers normally deride any type of subway performances—especially when they're taking place in actual subway cars—this breakdancing routine is a notable exception. <Animal>

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Welcome to the fukn neighborhood

Video shot on the corner of B'way and Bleeker.
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TODAY @ 4pm: "Seriously, fuk those assholes and the Federal Reserve...SAY NO"

"Seriously, fuck those assholes and the Federal Reserve.

**SAY NO TO THE WALL STREET BAILOUT!**

Thursday, September 25 @ 4pm, Bowling Green Park--in the plaza area--Broadway and Beaver Streets, Manhattan. (4 or 5 trains to Bowling Green or R, W or 1 to Rector St)

Bring banners, noisemakers, signs, leaflets & your unsalable junk! This is a historic moment. We need to act now while we can influence the debate. This week the White House is trying to push through the biggest financial theft in world history with nary a stitch of debate.They're asking for a blank check for over 1 trillion dollars to bail out George Bush's Wall Street cronies who created this economic crisis in the first place.

If this passes, we can forget about any money for environmental protection, to counter global warming, for education, for national health care, to rebuild our decaying infrastructure, for alternative energy (or AIDS research and prevention!).

Let's rally and march against this bailout in the heart of the financial district! Gather at 4pm, this Thursday, Sept. 25 in the plaza at the southern end of Bowling Green Park, which is the small triangular park that has the Wall Street bull at the northern tip.

Since Wall Street is asking us to give them money for their worthless investments, some folks are planning to bring their OWN junk to Wall Street and see if they'll buy it. Bring your collectible mugs, broken sleds and limited edition Thomas Kinkade prints and add 'em to the pile! This action inspired by Buy My Shitpile -http://www.buymyshitpile.com/ Do whatever you can for this historic event and contact all your groups and friends. This proposed financial bailout is without precedent and we have to stop it!"

Or, as the Financial Times has written,

"A government rescue is on the way...Naturally, the need for such a government-sponsored rescue is annoying. Taxpayers may well wish for the imposition of a special tax on recipients of what have turned out, retrospectively, to be unearned dividends and unjustified salaries. But demanding such a pay-back is infeasible. The pragmatic thing to do is let bygones be bygones,"

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Harlem World

• 3rd Annual Up South International Book Festival Comes To Harlem This Weekend <UpSouth>
• Harlem: The Last Frontier. Add Race, Housing, and Class. Mix well and heat at 350 Delicious!! <Black Agenda Report>
• Activist Aims High With Harlem Children's Zone <NPR>
• Presidential Debate Watch Parties in Harlem (unless McCain backs out ) <Uptown Flavor>
• "While her husband worked to keep the economy green, First Lady Laura Bush was in St. Nicholas Park in Harlem today to help keep the neighborhood green."
  <NY 1>

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Put Your City On

Run, Walk, Or Bike. Central Park

• Fall for Dance photos on Flickr
• Inside An NYC Sex Club <Tango Mag> (printer friendly version)
• Animal New York continues burnishing it's reputation as the most servicey blog in nyc, more servicey then many newspapers. <Animal>
• "Project Runway" Goes to the Ballet: In, Auf or Eh? <WNYC Art.Cult>
  
• Yankee Stadium dirt anything but dirt cheap on eBay <Urbanite>
  
• BYOB <NewYork.Lookbook.nu>
  
• Manhattan park gets 'tree house' art <AM New York>
  

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Map of Manhattan (Mannados) 1661

Glancing at the map, can anyone tell how much of Manhattan is there? Is that from 14th St down? 23rd St down? I'm just not sure. You can click it for a larger view.

Image via: Images of American History

UPDATE: The Bowery Boys posted this map on Monday, and added lots of information about Manhattan c. 1660ish.

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Harlem World

Gisele Bundchen selling watches on Riverside Drive, near 145th St.

• Ground-breaking celebrated for Harlem Hospital Center <Contract Magazine>
  
• The Local: A Record of Harlem's Change <NY Obesrver/The Real Estate>
  
• Pictures from Harlem African American Parade <Hip Hop Republican>
• "State Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell (D-Morningside Heights) has launched an effort against Columbia’s proposal to demolish three brownstones on 115th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive." <Columbian Spectator>
  

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More Information And Video Surfaces From Harlem's Violent Sunday Night

From YouTube user giantlaserbeams, the video to the right purports to be recorded during a night of six shootings in Harlem this past Sunday evening. Hip Hop Republican originally posted the video, noting it came "from an anonymous source of what occurred during Saturdays African American Day Parade shoot out." Due to a lack of reports from the press regarding the events on Sunday evening, either by design or from lack of information, this video stands alone in helping to illuminate events that evening. The user who posted the video did not include the street it was shot on, or at what time.

It appears the video was recorded from a roof, and shows a police helicopter circling overhead, while sirens can be heard in the background. At 58 seconds in, what sounds like a gunshot goes off, and people begin running down the street. At 2:48 in, someone is overheard saying, "Yo (inaudible) man, everyone is shooting fuckin guns man!" A phalanx of people assumed to be officers can be seen all over the street at this time. At 4.20 you can hear, "Yo! you stooges! Yo! Yo! Yo! Yo! Put your hands on top of the car right now! Put your hands on top of the car!" The video ends at 5:35.

Peter Moskos, former police officer and current assistant professor at the City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and author of the book and blog of the same name, Cop In The Hood, wrote on his blog, "The [African American Day] parade ended in the afternoon. The tough kids come out at night. Between 11pm and 2am, people were walking around with guns, shooting them in the air. And this right by uniformed officers. Plain-clothed officers would tackle the kids."

The commentors at Hip Hop Republican have their own ideas about why there has only been a few sparse news reports about the shootings. "Its not on the news because of all the gentrification going on. can't scare all the white people..."

UPDATE: An anonymous commenter from an earlier post about the shootings states, "There was also another, unreported shooting at Fred Doug and 127th at around 10 pm. I saw the guy on the ground." If accurate and not an account of one of the 5-6 shootings already reported, (5 by the NY Post, 6 by the Daily News) that would bring the total to 7. That total may or may not include the gentleman who was shot dead in his car at Columbus Avenue & West 91st Street.

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Put Your City On

Shooting a scene at the 6 train stop on Spring St. The sign says, "Portugal for Obama"

• "High five, bro: White people are making a big comeback in New York!" <Gothamist>
  
• It's official, we are in a recession <Flickr>
• Police Mobilize at Northeast Rail Stations <City Room>
• Campaign buttons for Williamsburg hipsters <Urbanite>
  
• What’s up with that "Welcome to Greenwich Village" sign? <I, New York>
  
• Columbia Professsor Falls to Death from Riverside Apartment <Columbia Spectator>
  

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Painted Subway Maps by EQ, On Prince St, NYC

The artist EQ sets up his stand for business on the sidewalk of Prince St.

More information about the artist and work will be forthcoming, as well as a short video interview.

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Harlem Preacher The Honorable James David Manning: "Obama's Mama Was Trash"

"a low-life, snail-eating white woman. That's the kind of woman that Obama's mama was. And that's what my mama told me. And if you don't like it, go tell my mama that you don't like it...."

The video runs for 8 minutes. It really is something, watch the whole thing. He saves his best vitriol for Chris Mattews, Keith Olberman, and their children. This is the first I've heard of this guy, but it appears the church, Atlah World Ministries, has a slew of these sermons up on a Veoh channel, here.

UPDATE: Ah yes, now I remember.

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Broadway facing North from Soho

• 40 Years of New York Magazine <WNYC>
• Talk of the possibility of natural disaster has spurred concern about Columbia’s Manhattanville expansion. <Columbia Spectator>
• FDA investigated Drug Company Hires Giuliani <Animal>
  
• Subsidized Tenants Face The Not-For-Rent Sign <City Limits>
  
• When New York Branded Its Way Out of Crisis <City Room>
• Streetfilms: Park(ing) Day NYC 2008 <Streetsblog>
• Google Transit Gets NYC Savvy <Gothamist>
  
• Stalk Meet the new freshmen students, part two. <I, New York>
  
• Rich people held a party atop the Dwyer building at 123rd and St. Nicholas, held to celebrate full occupancy. <Harlem Hybrid>
  
• Podcast: Shea Stadium <Bowery Boys>
  

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Yay Germany!

Getting off the train on 63rd and Lexington Ave on Saturday afternoon, and the sounds of a band could be heard around the corner. So your intrepid videographer went to have a looksie. Not quite sure what was going on, but Oktoberfest started yesterday, so perhaps it was a dress rehearsal?

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Spate Of Six Shootings Grip Harlem Yesterday Evening

Gothamist relays a story on a man shot dead while sitting in his car at Columbus Avenue & West 91st Street. The Daily News reports that "Six people were shot in a series of attacks in Harlem - starting at 8:30 p.m. - on an unseasonably balmy evening."

Blogger Hip Hop Republican was on the grizzly scene at 127th near and St. Nicholas, where they report that a young man, possibly a police officer, was "laying on the street with blood flowing from his chest. "

The NY Post is reporting that "five people were shot within 45 minutes. None suffered life-threatening injuries...The shootings began at 8:47 p.m. at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, where two men were shot. At 9:15, a man was shot at 217 W. 127th Street. At 9:21 p.m., a 17-year-old youth was shot at 127th Street and Lenox, and, at around the same time, a 15-year-old girl was hit at 128th Street and Lenox."

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Ellis G. Installation At Sara Tecchia Gallery in Chelsea

Ellis G. temporary installation installed at Sara Tecchia Gallery 529 W.20th St. Bet. 10th and 11th aves. NYC.

Ellis Gallagher, AKA Ellis G., has a temporary installation up at the Sara Tecchia Gallery until Nov. 1st. You can view more photos of the installation here.

Ellis is a well known artist from nyc who has been using chalk as his medium, tracing shadows cast on the street from a a variety of street furniture, such as bicycles, trees, fire hydrants, and more. Wooster Collective has a great video of Ellis creating and talking about his art, here.




Related:
Ellis G. Hits Northampton, MA

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Harlem World

Woman and child cross 116th St in W.Harlem

• Governor Marches In Harlem's African American Parade <NY1>
  
• Columbia University and NYC Face Holdouts In Quest To Redevelop West Harlem <Daily News> (video at NY1)
  
• Will Harlem suffer more than other areas? (due to falling home prices) <Street Easy>
  
• Tonight at 6pm: Film Screening: Hitting the Streets, from Harlem to East New York: In Hunter College’s Lang Auditorium, North Building, 4th Floor, 69th Street between Park and Lexington. <Streetsblog>
  
• Lehman Brothers collapse leaves in doubt it's recent charitable donation of $3 Million to Harlem's Children Zone <Forbes>
  
• "If the New York real estate market totters, the shock waves will most likely be felt first in those newly fashionable neighborhoods like Harlem" <NY Times>

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