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Banner year for 5 Harlem artists

Banner year for 5 Harlem artists

After winning a competition, Justin West and four other talented local artists will have their artwork on display on banners along Harlem’s most recognized strip: W. 125th St.

Banner year for 5 Harlem artists
MICHAEL J. FEENEY
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:43:47 GMT

Manhattan Week: 125th Street: Harlem's Life Force

Manhattan Week: 125th Street: Harlem's Life Force

125th Street is the heartbeat of Harlem, an artery of culture and commerce running east to west, river to river.

Manhattan Week: 125th Street: Harlem's Life Force
Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:25:06 GMT

Inaugural Harlem Arts Festival Organizers Want to Showcase Local Artists

Inaugural Harlem Arts Festival Organizers Want to Showcase Local Artists

February 6, 2012 4:22pm | By Jeff Mays, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

Neal Ludevig, executive director of the Harlem Arts Festival at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park. (DNAinfo/Jeff Mays)

HARLEM — When Neal Ludevig promotes the Harlem Arts Festival he's planning for the summer in Marcus Garvey Park, the first response is usually: "I missed last year's."

It'll be the inaugural event — there was no last year — but Ludevig still sees the positive in the innocuous mix-ups.

"It shows that the desire is there and that this is needed," said Ludevig, executive director, standing in the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater, the festival's main event stage.

Planned for this June, Ludevig and fellow festival founders J.J. El-Far and Chelsea Goding want the festival to be a multi-discpilnary display of art that is relevant to Harlem.

So while dance, theater and comedy are taking place on the main stage, artist chats, organizers hope, will be going on elsewhere in the park. Visitors could also check out works for sale along the gallery walk entrance to the park or take their kids to some of the children's programming.

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Harlem Mom Loses Sons To Guns, Becomes Anti-Violence Crusader

Harlem Mom Loses Sons To Guns, Becomes Anti-Violence Crusader

This Black History Month, we honor the GAME CHANGERS: Everyday heroes whose actions make life better for the people around them. SEE ALL OUR GAME CHANGERS HERE

Jackie Rowe-Adams

Place of Residence: New York, N.Y.

Why she is a local hero: Rowe-Adams co-founded  Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E. with Jean Corbett-Covington.

When Rowe-Adams tells a group of parents gathered at the headquarters for Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E. (a counseling center for parents who have lost their children to violent deaths) that she understands their pain, it’s coming from the heart.

Rowe-Adams lost two of her sons to horrible acts of gun violence. Her 17-year-old son was killed in 1981, when two men murdered him for supposedly staring them down. A second 28-year-old son was murdered in 1998 in Baltimore, when a 13-year-old robbed him outside of his apartment.

“It still hurts sometimes,” said Rowe-Adams. “But I knew I had to do something about it.”

Today, Rowe-Adams spends her time trying to get help for families of murdered children. She makes sure they get grief counseling and financial help, and she also works to stop gun violence. Her group is trying to locate the ports where the guns are coming in to Harlem and is pushing for tougher gun laws. She’s also educating parents on ways to keep their kids from carrying and firing guns.

Her well-known expression: “If you see something, say something.”

“You need to tell it,” continues Rowe-Adams. “You need to pay attention to where these guns are hidden. They are in the buildings, they are in the bodegas. They all around you. Check your kids bag look under the mattress. You, the parents have the kids in your hand. This is your community, take charge of your community. Stop smoking weed with your kids, Rowe-Adams said this summer after a nationally ranked girls high school basketball star was murdered in Harlem.”

Rowe-Adams said she is concerned about the level of violence she is seeing from kids today.

“What I’m seeing is kids shooting just to shoot,” Rowe-Adams said. “They want a reputation. They want to put it on Facebook. They want to laugh at something that is not funny.”

After years of advocating, Rowe-Adams and Corbett-Covington were able to receive a permanent rent-free headquarters in Harlem with the help of local politicians.  They are in the process of expanding their programming with an aim toward being proactive.

Now they are working on concrete plans to assist parents who find that a child is hiding a gun in their home, for example. A parent could make an anonymous call and have a lawyer and law enforcement officer come out and retrieve the illegal weapon. The child could get counseling.

“Some of the parents are scared of their kids because they talk back to them,” says Rowe-Adams. “And then you have young mothers trying to be friends with their children. Finally, you have grandparents taking care of kids after they’ve already raised a family and they don’t have the energy. They think the kids are in their room and they are outside. They say they are at John’s house, but you don’t know who John is or who his parents are. If you are scared of your child or need help, tell somebody. Let somebody help you.”

Harlem Mom Loses Sons To Guns, Becomes Anti-Violence Crusader
Jeff Mays
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:35:09 GMT

Fat Wednesday At Harlem Tavern

Fat Wednesday At Harlem Tavern

DATE: January 25, 2012

LOCATION: 2153 Frederick Douglass Bvld

TIME: 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM

MORE INFO: http://harlemtavern.com/

Harlem Tavern hosts Fat Wednesday. Bring your dancing shoes, an empty belly and a spirit of mischief.

Live music by SugarTone Brass Band.

No cover.

For more information call (212) 866-4500 or visit the website.

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Harlem Liquor Store Nervous After Nixing Bulletproof Glass To Placate Gentrifiers

 

Some of the more, shall we say, refined residents of the Mount Morris Park Historic District in East Central Harlem were recently mortified when a new wine shop opened up with bulletproof glass and garish neon signage that would make the Whore of Babylon blush. This kind of thing may fly over in Northeast Central Harlem, but this is the MMPHD, people! As the president of the local community improvement association, Syderia Chresfield, told DNAinfo at the time, "It brings down everything we are trying to build up. I don't like to use the word ghetto, but that's what it is." And so, after a lot of hassle, the owner has transformed the ghetto into fabulous. But is he a sitting duck? [ more › ]

Harlem Liquor Store Nervous After Nixing Bulletproof Glass To Placate Gentrifiers
John Del Signore
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:30:00 GMT

Three Kings Day Parade will slow East Harlem traffic

 

All city parking rules are in effect Thursday and Friday. Thousands of school children in festive costumes will dance up the streets of East Harlem Friday morning for the 35th annual Three Kings Day Parade. Participants will gather after 9 a.m. Friday in front of El Museo del Barrio on 106th St. at Fifth Ave.

Three Kings Day Parade will slow East Harlem traffic
Gridlock Sam
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:56:00 GMT

A Last-Chance High School in Harlem Goes High Tech to Stave Off Closure

A Last-Chance High School in Harlem Goes High Tech to Stave Off Closure

December 29, 2011 6:37am | By Jon Schuppe, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

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HARLEM — Harlem Renaissance High School is a place of last resort.

It is filled with kids just out of jail, teenage mothers, immigrants who can barely speak English, special ed students and bright kids who have given up on themselves. They are clinging to the bottom rung of the public education system, and there aren’t many places for them to fall.

Now their school is fighting for survival, too.

Harlem Renaissance, Upper Manhattan’s only “transfer school” for students in danger of aging out of the system, has spent a year on the state Department of Education’s list of “persistently low-performing” schools that should be closed.

A neighborhood outcry and some frantic string-pulling by its inventive rookie principal staved off an immediate shutdown, and the school’s dismal graduation rate has since improved enough to earn a better grade from city education officials.

But Harlem Renaissance remains in limbo.

One bad fight or another failed inspection, and it could disappear from East 128th Street.

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Bronx school aide busted for selling Adderall

Bronx school aide busted for selling Adderall

A public school aide was busted in Harlem on Wednesday after selling prescription pills to an undercover cop.

Bronx school aide busted for selling Adderall
BEN CHAPMAN, MELISSA GRACE, JOHN DOYLE
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:32:37 GMT

CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS: Medieval & Baroque Treasury

CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS: Medieval & Baroque Treasury

A sold-out holiday tradition, EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK draws from its several Christmas albums - produced in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art - to present a sampling of favorites from its i...
Event Date & Time: 12/03/2011 08:00 PM
Location: Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street,, New York,, NY, 10025

CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS: Medieval & Baroque Treasury
Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:04:11 GMT

Lifelong Harlem residents pen play about gentrification of their neighborhood

 

They saw abandoned brownstones renovated, cracks on sidewalks fixed and new families move onto their Harlem blocks.

Lifelong Harlem residents pen play about gentrification of their neighborhood
MICHAEL J. FEENEY
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:00:55 GMT

Is the NYPD Attempt to Block Historic AFRICAN DAY PARADE

Is the NYPD Attempt to Block Historic AFRICAN DAY PARADE IN CELEBRATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Racist or ???

Posted: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:55:00 PDT

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson Hello All: You know, I love a parade. Especially when we do it ourselves. That's why I never miss the West Indian Day Parade every year down Eastern Parkway. The music, the...
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Summer on the Hudson - Lunchtime Listen - Columbia University Jazztet

 

Date: August 26, 2011

Lunchtime sounds even better now! Enjoy the ambient acoustics. Pack a bag of yummies and drink in the reverberations.
Aug 26: Columbia University Jazztet
The Columbia Jazztet features faculty and students from Columbia University's prestigious Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program (LAJPP). The ensemble is directed by trombonist Chris Washburne (Professor and Founding Director of the LAJPP). Other faculty members include Ole Mathisen (saxophone), Ben Waltzer (piano), Ugonna Okegwo (bass), and Tony Moreno (drums).

Start time: 11:00 am

End time: 1:00 pm

Contact phone: 311

Location: West Harlem Piers Park

Summer on the Hudson - Lunchtime Listen - Columbia University Jazztet
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:00:08 GMT