Going Condo in Harlem By JOSH BARBANEL Source: NY Times February 5, 2006 RICHARD SHIU’S brownstone on West 123rd Street was once an abandoned wreck, but now he looks on proudly as would-be buyers trek up the stairs to stare at the gas-burning fireplaces and mantels, the high ceilings and granite counters and the… [Read more…]
February 7, 2006 by D. Bell
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The House That Earl Built Knicks legend Earl the Pearl tries to up the ante on jock food. By Mark Jacobson Earl Monroe, the incomparable Pearl, who in his heyday bounced a basketball with the sort of idiosyncratic rhythm Thelonious Monk applied to the piano, leans his still-supple body back in his chair and… [Read more…]
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Once-Heralded Address Lags Behind Rest of Harlem By JULIA VITULLO-MARTIN – Special to the Sun January 19, 2006 At 9 o’clock on a recent Friday morning, a big guy in a scruffy blue coat stood dealing drugs in front of the main gate to the Graham Court, an Italian Renaissance palazzo called the most luxurious… [Read more…]
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Chateau Harlem What’s remarkable about a wine store in Harlem is that it wasn’t remarkable. BY JULIA VITULLO-MARTIN Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:01 a.m. NEW YORK–It’s a testimonial to just how far Harlem has come back economically that when an upscale wine store, Harlem Vintage, opened on Frederick Douglass Boulevard last November the buzz… [Read more…]
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Greens in Black and White By WARREN ST. JOHN O most Southerners, few things are as pleasing as plopping down before a heaping plate of simple, home-style cooking — dishes like collard or turnip greens, fried chicken, black-eyed peas, corn bread, sweet potato casserole. This type of food is so evocative of the easygoing… [Read more…]
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Table Talk: Harlem Grill taps local history Serves neighborhood dishes along with new American; belted songs add to sound By Bob Lape Published on August 01, 2005 Harlem Grill 2247-49 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (Seventh Ave.) (212) 491-0493 ** Cuisine: New American/Southern Wines: 60 choices, sommelier Dress: No code Noise Level: High Mon.-Tues., moderate… [Read more…]
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Bedding Down in Harlem I’d always figured that tourists tended to ignore my Harlem neighborhood, but turns out I’m just a damn fool. I recently read that 30 percent of visitors to New York swing by Harlem at least once, which I guess explains all the Japanese girls I’m always playing eye hockey with at… [Read more…]
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February 1, 2005 Groups Vie to Reimagine Historic Theater in Harlem By ROBIN POGREBIN or years, the Loew’s Victoria Theater, a once-elegant vaudeville house and movie palace, has languished on West 125th Street in Harlem. Just a few doors down from its famous neighbor the Apollo Theater, the Victoria went from being celebrated as… [Read more…]
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Editorial note: Pan Pan was closed due to a fire in 2004. Counter Culture Last Train to Waffleville Village Voice by Robert Sietsema January 24 – 30, 2001 Pan Pan may import its sausage from Georgia, but it controls its own means of production. photo: Michael Berman Pan Pan 500 Lenox Avenue, 212-926-4900. Open daily… [Read more…]
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February 7, 2006 by D. Bell
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