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

• Columbia University: And All Ye Who Enter Morningside Heights Shall Be Pure Of Hearts And Of Service To Our Young Students. "With the exception of a few buildings, Broadway's storefronts are owned by Columbia and University affiliates between 111th and 123rd streets. On Amsterdam, Columbia owns the majority of storefronts between 115th and 122nd...In 2006, a store owner told the Spectator that the University requires proprietors to submit business proposals and comply with certain stipulations in exchange for their favorable rental terms...'Columbia considers a variety of local needs before making a decision on the type of business that can become a business tenant. Beyond that, we do not comment on our negotiations.'" <The Bwog>
  
  
• Washington Heights resident not blowing smoke, documents neighborhood air quality violations on his blog, becoming the lead in neighborhood's quest to remedy an egregious environmental problem under their noses. Exposing an oft overlooked side to urban living uptown, photographing the thick black smoke that pours out of 671 West 162nd, while other residents converse in the comments about what steps they can take, no doubt aware that people power will move the issue. "Officials and politicians? Not even footnotes in this story, which is about the aggregation of capital and the relentless rise of the metropolis."
  <The Gay Recluse>
  
  
• Some great fall shots of Upper Manhattan <Paz's New York Minute>
  
• Undiscovered Beach in Manhattan? <NY Daily Photo>
  
• Antibodies to cockroach and mouse proteins are associated with a greater risk for wheeze, hay fever and eczema in preschoolers, New York researchers say. <UPI.com>
  

Harlem World

Ain't no sunshine, photograph by Patricil.

• Harlem Newcomer the Maysles Institute Documents a Changing City <The Real Estate>
  
• So that explains seeing Russel Brand and his very attractive lady friend at the Loews theater yesterday; Russell Brand @ El Teatro del Museo del Barrio - 11.13.8 <The Apiary>
  
• Parents, Advocates in Washington Heights Urge State Leaders to Exempt School-Based Health Centers from Further Budget Cuts <Children's Aid Society>
• Blogger gives thanks to artist Manny Vega for his tile mosaics in EL Barrio
  <Morena's Bohio>
  
• The Upper Manhattan Experience is about fostering a sense of community among the people who live, work and like to hang out in the Inwood/Washington Heights area of Manhattan. <MeetUp.com>
  
• StreetSquash Facility Opens In Harlem <NY1>
  
• Harlem’s IS 195 Renamed in Honor of Terence Tolbert <Uptown Flavor>
  
• Chronic Breakdowns; At the Wagner Houses in East Harlem, tenants like Angela Gonzalez, 76, have become inured to elevator problems. <NY Times>
  

Harlem World

A Kinky Deli, photograph by CarbonNYC.

• Taxman Spares Harlem Eatery <NY Post>
• Take an artsy walk around Harlem <Time Out Ny>
• Verizon to hand out free turkeys in Washington Heights <TCMnet>
  
• Harlem Holds Dedication For Harriet Tubman Sculpture <NY1>
• Tonight and Tomorrow, Harlem Tenants Council 2nd Annual Housing Conference
  <Google Groups>
• New York Rep. Charles Rangel has hired an accountant to pore over his personal finances as he faces an ethics committee investigation. <AP>
• Reading out loud: Literary venues for Latinos bloom in the city <Daily News>
  
• Woman Takes Command of 369th "Harlem Hell Fighters" <Read Media NewsWire>
  
• A leader of the consortium selected by city officials to build a mixed-use development on East 125th Street in Harlem has been dropped from the S&P 500 because its shares are virtually worthless <NY Observer>
• CITYarts, a non-profit public art organization in New York, had a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday to celebrate the restoration of the 36-year-old mosaic benches <UptownFlavor>
• Target Free Sundays at the Studio Museum offers free Museum admission every Sunday between 12 and 6 <Uptown Flavor>

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. (!!)
  <Washington Tykes>
• "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
  <Uptown Flavor>
  

Harlem World

Morningside Park pond, 113th and Morningside Ave

• Um, a walking of tour of Harlem for $50? Do people really pay that? <City Dusk>
  
• Or you could go on the 4th Annual Hawk Walk, I have a feeling it's a good deal cheaper then $50 <Harlem Hybrid>
  
• Or how about a walk in the North Woods of Central Parks? <Uptown Flavor>
• Skiing Harlem might be another option as well<what about the plastic animals?>

Harlem World

Hungarian Pastry Shop on 111th And Amsterdam

• Whatever you want to call 12th Ave in West Harlem, "it's going to be the same hazy and nameless row of bars and clubs where you wish you hadn't started a tab."
  <Fifth Column Blogs>
• Median home prices in Harlem and East Harlem were down nearly 20 percent, to $440,000 at the end of this year’s third quarter. Median prices in Hamilton Heights and Morningside Heights dropped 30% <NY Times>
• Harlem Moms Offer Support In Wake Of Violence <NY1>
  
• Good Senegalese Food in Harlem <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• November Events @ East Harlem Cafe <Uptown Flavor>
• Letters to President Obama from Fourth Graders in Harlem <HuffPo>
  
• Harlem Tenants Council 2nd Annual Housing Conference <Narmer's Page>
  
• Philip Reed, Ex-Councilman who represented East Harlem and Manhattan Valley, and parts of the Upper West Side and the South Bronx, is dead at 59 <NY Times>
• The off-duty police officer who nabbed the shooter on St Nicholas Ave last week says, "I'm no hero." <Daily News>

Harlem World

125th St looking east from Broadway

• The CW11's Lisa Mateo visits Talay -- a new restaurant in West Harlem, (not MePa.)
  <CW 11>
  
• How "Change" Sounded On The Radio (Or Didn't) <The Infinite Dial>
  
• The Mayor's budget cuts include "closing libraries for a half day, eliminating dental programs and closing a clinic in East Harlem" <NY Times>
• The local economy in the upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood continues to be fueled by growth in small businesses according to a report released Thursday by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. <Empire State News>
  
• CB12 Committee Asks DOT for Dyckman Greenway Connector Study <Streetsblog>
  
• Tonight and Tomorrow at Maysles Cinema, free screening of Rezoning Harlem <Uptown Flavor>
  
• Harlem Locals Still Confront Language Gaps <Columbia Spectator>

Harlem World

Cathedral of St John's Peace Fountain, on Amsterdam Ave btw 110 and 111th

• Police are searching for a man wanted in connection with a rape that occurred on Halloween in east Harlem <1010 Win>
  
• Harlem resident and Obama supporter Racquel Lewis explains the reasons behind her choice and why she thinks this election could change the country. <AP YouTube>
  
• Pottery Classes at Cornerstone Pottery on Washington Heights <Cornerstone Pottery>
  
• A few more pictures of the subway train that joined in the spotaneous parade on 125th after Obama won <Lindsay Beyerstein/Flickr>
  

Harlem World Election Edition

• Long Lines and History at Harlem Polls <NY Times Video>
  
• For those that were unable to get a newspaper today for a keepsake, they have already made their way to Ebay. (you can call newspapers direct to get a copy at cover price) <Ebay>
  
• How a historic election resonates in America’s first capital of black culture <MSNBC>
  
• Lots of footage at Gothamist from Harlem and elsewhere <Gothamist>
  
• Photos and video from Harlem Hybrid who was in the thick of it, including video of the crowd when it was announced Obama won <Harlem Hybrid>
  
• Rangels Vote Early In Harlem <PolitikerNY>
  
• Harlem Celebrates Obama's White House Victory <1010 Wins>

Harlem World

2340 Frederick Douglass Blvd

• Alexander Hamilton's house, condo projects, gang graffiti and Doug E. Fresh's waffle place. <Harlem Hybrid>
• After snapping a photo last month of an "upcoming snadwich place" HCL finds more information <Harlem Condo Life>
• Growing Pains Come To Harlem <NPR>
• Challenging the king of Harlem <Decision NYC>
• Voting line is like one big part for neighbors <Harlem Fur>
• Uptown Flavor is all over election day with an Election Day Watch Party guide, a first hand account of her voting experience this morning, and more. <Uptown Flavor>
  
• Selling Obama: Vendors Peddle Politics on the Streets of Manhattan
  <Geo/Graphi/Culture>
  

Harlem World

We are the future, photograph by copepodo.

• Columbia Journalism students will be broadcasting the election online
  <Columbia University>
  
• Law Enforcment has reservations about story of woman who fell in an elavtor shaft in an E. Harlem building <NY1>
  
• Harlemites have until November 12th to see several window installations, digital projections, local tours and events taking center stage uptown. <Uptown Flavor>
  
• NY1 caught up with some voters outside Amy Ruth's restaurant in Harlem on Saturday morning to talk about the election <NY1>
  
• Photos from the Harlem aqueduct, which has recently been welded shut
  <Harlem Hybrid>
  
• D. Bell writes an opininated and sharply worded op-ed about AM New York's recent article on Charles Rangel <Uptown Flavor>
  
• Harlem gets it's own secret bar, 79 Orchard St, which is on FDB btw 112 and 113, opened by the owners of Society Cafe, a cute and welcome, but over priced coffee shop and cafe. <Harlem Fur>

Harlem World

Photograph by Happy Dav

• A Church In E. Harlem, Then And Now <NY Times>
  
• Woman survives elevator shaft fall in E. Harlem <ABC 7>
  
• The Slow Transformation of E 96th Street <East Side Our Town>
  
• Artists Exhibit Personal Definitions of Harlem <Columbia Spectator>
  
• Blogger reviews the food at Talay, in MePa W. Harlem <Writing With My Mouth Full>
  
• West Harlem's CB9 District Manager Says Goodbye, Heads to CB13 <Columbia Spectator>
Talking with customer's of Sylvia's about the presidential candidates, "He (McCain) was a prisoner of war. How do you know he wasn't brainwashed? He might blow us all up,"
<The Austrailian>

Harlem World

Belting out a tune, at St Nick's Pub, photograph by xmascarol.

• "Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, the popular Harlem restaurant under the Riverside Drive viaduct, will be moving next year, but it won’t be going that far away" <City Room>
  
• Mayor Praises Tree-Planting At Harlem School <NY1>
  
• Jews Gradually Reclaiming Place in Harlem's History <Columbia Spectator>
  
• Freemasons in Harlem <Harlem Hybrid>
  
• Harlem restaurant MoBay Uptown filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week. <Crain's>
  

Harlem World

Manna's moving notice, West Harlem, New York, photograph by Eating In Translation.

• Harlem condo sales plunged a staggering 76 percent annually in the third quarter of 2008 <NY Observer>
• Hunter College Social Work School to Move Uptown <City Room>
• BEST HEADLINE AWARD: Except for the Displaced, Many Neighbors of Planned Hunter College Building Seem Pleased <NY Times>
  
• Animal Welfare Approved is sponsoring a Thanksgiving meal at the Community Kitchen of West Harlem, located at 252 West 116 Street, Manhattan for an estimated 700 low-income New Yorkers. <Market Watch>
  
• The Future of an Arts House Collective in Manhattanville, Sitting In C.U.'s Expansion Footprint, Does Not Look Good <Columbia Spectator>
  
• East Harlem Intersection Gets Traffic Light Thanks To Efforts Of Local Teen <NY1>
  
• The St. Nick's Dog Run Coffee Bark happens this Saturday, November 1st from 9am-11am, at one of the city's largest Dog Runs with some coffee, donuts and fun
  
• The Taco Mix, where cooks in Spanish Harlem eat <The Feedbag>
  
• A new Harlem resident declares, "I am the face of gentrification. It's not something I aspire to be, just something I am." <And How>

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>
  

Harlem World

Hair on 125th Street, photograph by specialkrb.

• Harlem fire kills man, 90 <Daily News>
  
• Harlem's Apollo theater to create oral history <Newsday>
  
• Studio Apt. on 148th and Broadway, $950 <Univision Classifieds>
• Cash for Guns Today, $200 Bank Cards for Each Gun Returned <Uptown Flavor>
  
• Photos from the Morningside Height’s Farmers Market <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• Harlem Church Hosts Gay Wedding Expo <Harlem World Magazine>

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Harlem World

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

• Bus Station at 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard is missing something
  <City Room>
  
• 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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Harlem World

*this* is a bar, photograph by litherland

• "Boasting at least 7 large Parks, Harlem forms an integral part of the Emerald Highway for migrating birds" <Harlem Hybrid>
• Robots & Rockets for Harlem’s Youth <Uptown Flavor
• West Harlem Piers Bike Path is now open <Streetsblog>
• If you missed Harlem during the recent OHNY, that's ok, because the Uptown Treasures Tour held this past weekend covers the same sights and D.Bell has photos
  <Uptown Flavor>
• A Greek Restaurant in Harlem. Yup. <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• Starting tomorrow, you can catch Giorgio Brogi's Out of Sync @The Italian Academy, Columbia University <ArtCal>
  
• Screening of Whose Barrio? this Saturday at Maysles Cinema this Saturday. This is a don't miss film. <Maysles Cinema>
  
• Harlem 350, an exhibition saluting the founding of the village of Harlem in the 17th Century, is at Cohen Library Atrium <CCNY Libraries>

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Harlem World Short Stack

• Economic Struggles Hit West Harlem's Small Businesses; "I wish there was a bailout package for local businesses, because local businesses are what give money back to the community, Joseph said. "When we fail, it really has an impact on the community."<Columbia Spectator>
  
• Basketball takes center stage in this Harlem "dog show" <Columbia Journalist>
  
• Studio Museum in Harlem’s Schedule of Exhibits <Uptown Flavor>

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