Open Studios at the Studio Museum

Tuesday, March 3 “Open Studios” at Studio Museum Harlem 144 W 125 street, RSVP to rsvp@studiomuseum.org, 11am-2pm

Photo of the Week: Harlem’s finest

harlem’s finest, originally uploaded by andre dos santos.

When Harlem was Jewish Tour

Join Yeshiva University History Professor Jeffrey S. Gurock, author of When Harlem was Jewish, 1870-1930, on a walk through the sites of Jewish religious life in the remarkable urban settlement of Harlem, once the second largest Jewish community in the United States. In 1917, it was home to more than 175,000 Jews. Contact 212.374.4100 x1… [Read more…]

The Scoop: Harlem Blog and News Watch

List of bookstores in Spanish Harlem [Literanista] Getting your Tae Kwon Do on in Harlem [UptownMom] The Times covers the charter school fair at CCNY [NYT] The Daily News did its own coverage of the fair [NYDN] Review of SpaHa Cafe [Shorty PJs] The Hunt profiles buyers still moving into Harlem [NYT] and exposes the… [Read more…]

Shuttered: Renaissance Cigar Emporium

An UPTOWNflavor reader sent us an email letting us know that  it seems that the neighborhood cigar bar has gone the way of the caviar bar and other high-end luxury businesses that cropped up during Harlem’s ‘new renaissance’. The folks over at Manhattan (Harlem) Kids have a prediction list of who will be next. Read… [Read more…]

Honor!