Harlem's Independence Day salute on Sunday, July 4th Fireworks will be set off from multiple locations, meaning there will be Instagram-worthy vistas of the display from multiple spots in Harlem.
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Claremont Park And Sakura Park In Morningside Heights In Harlem, New York 1896
Claremont Park and Sakura Park is a public park located north of West 122nd Street between Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue in Morningside Heights in Harlem, NY.Continue reading
Shop Harlem World Gear: Amsterdam News, Harlem Tank, The Big Apple, Grants Tomb And More
It’s the beginning of Fall. Between what might be unbearable weather and the progress towards opening up after COVID, in some ways—at least relative to the rollercoaster of the past few months.Continue reading
Marko’s World: A Summertime Feeling In Harlem
By Marko Nobles
Labor Day has come and gone. Hopefully you had a good Labor Day weekend.
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Harlemites Stroll With Grant’s Tomb In The Background, Harlem, NY, 1900
Pedestrians entertain themselves as they stroll on West 122nd Street and Riverside Drive in this image looking north with Grant’s Tomb in the background in Morningside Heights in Harlem, NY, 1897.Continue reading
Seitu’s World: Harlem Week, A Great Day In Harlem At Grants Tomb (Photographs)
On Sunday, July 29th, 2018, photographer Seitu Oronde was at the Harlem Week, A Great Day in Harlem event at Grants Tomb on 123rd Street in Harlem, NY.
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Harlem’s Jokichi Takamine, First Biotech Engineer, Adrenaline And Nippon Club Founder
Jōkichi Takamine (高峰 譲吉 Takamine Jōkichi, November 3, 1854 – July 22, 1922) was a Japanese chemist. Takamine was born in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, in November 1854. His father was a doctor; his mother a member of a family of sake brewers.Continue reading
Squatters Shack At Grant’s Tomb In Harlem 1901
An amazing photograph looking northeast on a snowy in Riverside Park with columns and dome from General U.S. Grants Tomb beyond with a squatters wood shack in the foreground in West Harlem, NY, February 13th, 1901. Continue reading
Claremont Hotel, Riverside Park, Harlem, NY, 1820’s
This early nineteenth-century structure was located on the high ground overlooking the Hudson River on the line of West 126th Street, just north of Grant's Tomb. Continue reading
The Harlem’s Luxurious Claremont Restaurant And Inn At Riverside Drive NY 1895
A great image the moment a Havemeyer Coach carriages riding north from the multi-story Claremont Restaurant and Inn at Riverside Drive (at 123rd Street, a block north of Grant’s Tomb) in Harlem, NY on May 25, 1895.Continue reading
Harlem Luxury At The Claremont Inn, NY 1804-1950’s (Photographs)
The outdoor photographs of the historic Claremont Inn on Riverside Drive at 121st Street in West Harlem, New York, 1804 until the early 1950's, are well documented with images of the exterior decks and dinning areas.Continue reading
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Restore Grant’s Tomb To Its Glory (Photographs)
Hearing the term “national park,” most Americans probably think of Yellowstone or Yosemite, expanses that preserve some of the most remarkable natural features in the country. Continue reading
Milt Jackson, Jimmy Heath And Many Others At Jazzmobile In Harlem, 1995, (Video)
That's legends Milt Jackson with Jimmy Heath, Bob Cranshaw, MIke LeDonne and Kenny Washington playing in these video series we found on Youtube of a legendary Jazzmobile concert at Grant's Tomb in West Harlem, New York on August 28th, 1995.
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Seitu’s World: 2016 Harlem Week’s Harlem Day At Grants Tomb (Photographs)
Photographs By Seitu Oronde
On Sunday, July 31, 2016, the annual Harlem Week's event Harlem Day took place at Grants Tomb at 121st Street and Riverside Drive in West Harlem, New York.Continue reading
Riverside Church And Grant’s Tomb, Harlem, NY, 1930 (updated)
Riverside Church and Grant's Tomb (right) looking south on 121st Street and Riverside Drive in Harlem, New York, 1910 1930.Continue reading
The Claremont Hotel, Harlem, New York 1915
A spectacular night-time photograph looking south of the Claremont Hotel, located just a block north of Grant's Tomb, was a legendary, Riverside venue (between 121st and 123rd Streets) for the well-to-do in its day in West Harlem, New York.
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Jazzmobile’s 50th Anniversary In Harlem
The Jazzmobile continues Billy Taylor's tradition of presenting the legends , masters, rising stars and young emerging performers, this year's Summerfest has one brilliant performance after another.
Continue readingRectors To Claremont Inn, Harlem, NY 1903-1904 (video)
The opening was filmed in front of Rector's Lobster Palace at Broadway between 43rd & 44th Streets.This party is on their way to the Claremont Inn on Riverside Drive, Harlem, New York in 1908.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