In an auditorium packed with family, friends and well-wishers, 92 graduating students of the fourth class of the Touro College of Pharmacy (TCOP) received their PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy) degrees last week at commencement ceremonies held at Columbia University’s Roone Arledge Auditorium.Continue reading
Emma Sulkowicz Made a Film Addressing Rape In Harlem
Emma Sulkowicz, the artist and activist behind Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), has made a new video, titled “Ceci N’est Pas un Viol” (This Is Not a Rape).Continue reading
Cars On Broadway And 122nd Street, 1919
Here is a snap shot of a south bound cars, horse carriage and person on a bicycle on Broadway crossing 122nd Street in West Harlem in 1919.Continue reading
Trolley Car On Broadway And 122nd Street 1919
Here is a snap shot of a south bound Trolley car and a man walking north on Broadway crossing 122nd Street in West Harlem in 1919.Continue reading
Man And Horse On The Way To Harlem, 1970
A great color photograph looking East of one of the last man and horse riding across 125th Street (not sure of the cross street) in Harlem, New York 1970.Continue reading
RATifcation Program To Widen From Harlem To Hollis
A New York pilot program to root out rats by attacking them in the colonies they set up in parks, subways and sewers has proven so successful that the city is expanding it to all five boroughs, a city official said on Thursday.Continue reading
Colloquia Series With Dr. Jamila Lyiscott At Teachers College In Harlem
Jamila Lyiscott recently received her Ph.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University where her work focuses on the education of the African Diaspora. Dr. Lyiscott's scholarship and activism work together to prepare educators for sustaining diversity in the classroom, empower youth, and explore, assert, and defend the value of Black life.Continue reading
VOODOO, A Harlem Renaissance Opera In Harlem
Morningside Opera, Harlem Opera Theater, and The Harlem Chamber Players join forces to present a semi-staged concert production of the Harlem Renaissance opera Voodoo by Harry Lawrence Freeman. Continue reading
NYU’s Dr. Suzanne C. Carothers At The Harlem Adult Education Conference
Dr. Suzanne C. Carothers is the key note speaker at the Total Equity Now's Harlem Adult Education Conference on May 1st, 2015 at Teachers College, Columbia University in Harlem, NY.Continue reading
Harlem’s Basil Smikle Jr., New Ex. Director Of State Dem Party
Former Gov. David Paterson, the chairman of the New York State Democratic Party, announced today that Basil Smikle Jr., a top Democratic consultant, will become the new executive director of the party.Continue reading
125th Street BID: Construction Happenings In Harlem
Southwest corner of Lenox Avenue
125th Street is currently the home of several construction sites that leave pedestrians, visitors & residents eager to see the final products. Continue readingJoin The Penultimate Racial Literacy Roundtable At Columiba
Please join the penultimate Racial Literacy Roundtable for 2014-2015 academic year at Columbia University, Harlem, New York. Continue reading
Getty Gas Station, 125th Street and 12th Avenue, 1950’s
This is a photograph of the Getty gas station looking southeast on the corner of 125th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattanville in West Harlem during the early 1950's. Continue reading
The Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, Harlem 1923
The Studebaker building is an industrial building with Art Deco detailing that was built in 1923 to house the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company in of West Harlem.Continue reading
Morningside Heights
Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City and is chiefly known as the home of institutions such as Columbia University, Teachers College, Barnard College, the Manhattan School of Music, Bank Street College of Education, "Grant's Tomb", the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, the Riverside Church, the Broadway Presbyterian Church, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Interchurch Center and St. Luke's Hospital. Because of the number of educational institutions in the neighborhood, its nickname is the Academic Acropolis.Continue reading