Editor’s Note: The Limited Edition

Dear Readers: You might have noticed that we have not been posting as much as usual. We are still looking for writers to help out on the site. We have been receiving wonderful tips, but have not had the (wo)man power to disseminate it to our loyal readers. We hope to be back to publishing… [Read more…]

Narmer’s Newsstand

The Lost Boys of Tryon: Inside New York’s most infamous juvenile prison  [NYM] Buying Power of African American Consumers Approaching $1 Trillion in 2010 [UM] Harlem’s famed Sylvia’s soul food joint to begin home delivery in February [DN] Ruling Could Mean Lower Rents for 300,000 Tenants [CR] Large High Schools in the City Are Taking Hard… [Read more…]

Narmer’s Newsstand

Officials Hid Truth About Immigrant Deaths in Jail [NYT] New York’s premier frymaster Charles Gabriel totes skillets down from Harlem for Fried Chicken Fridays [NYMAG] Less Salt, Please, the City Asks [CR] James Kriegsmann Jr. continues the legacy of his father, who photographed black entertainers when many others would not. [NYT] [CR] Virtual Coin Toss Lets Football Fans Watch… [Read more…]

Kids eat free MLK Week at Harlem Bar-B-Q

Twitter Argument Leads to Alleged Murder [REPORT]

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The Changing Face of Harlem

Continuing the ‘conversation’ about the changes in Harlem, CNN produces a two and a half minute package that features well known Harlemites like Rev. Calvin Butts of Abyssinian and Chef Marcus Samuelson, as well as Harlem business owners like Jai Jai of Harlem Vintage. CNN’s The Changing Face of Harlem

Narmer’s Newsstand

Thompson to Run for Mayor in 2013 [NYT] City Ignoring Law on Class Sizes, Suit Says [NYT] Voting System to Finally Join Electronic Age [NYT] Three Kings Day Parade in East Harlem a Colorful Occasion [EPOCH] Who Has the Right to Say What’s Blight? Bill Perkins vs. ESDC Darling [OBSERVER] Netflix Bends To Warner Bros.,… [Read more…]

What’s on exhibit in Harlem?

EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: ‘NEXUS NEW YORK: LATIN/AMERICAN ARTISTS IN THE MODERN METROPOLIS,’ through Feb. 28. A bright light at the top of Museum Mile, the city’s premier Latino art center has reopened after a makeover with a dense, episodic and absorbing visual history of the Latino art presence in New York in the first… [Read more…]

Has Harlem lost its flavor?

The recently reported shift in Harlem’s primary demographic has caused some neighborhood residents to feel that Harlem has lost its ‘flavor.’  Do you think that Harlem has seen the last of it’s cultural heyday?

Narmer’s Newsstand

No longer black majority, Harlem is in transition [NYT] Justice Takes No Holiday in Room 129 at a Manhattan Court [NYT] Banks Roll Out New Check Card Fees [WSJ] How Visa, using card fees, dominates a market [NYT] Bodegas, barbershops dealing sweet liquor punch ‘Nutcrackers’ to city teens [DN] Dominic Carter has hit rock bottom.… [Read more…]

Percy Sutton Funeral at Riverside Church

The memorial service for the late Percy Ellis Sutton, prominent civil rights, political and business pioneer, will take place at The Riverside Church on Wednesday, January 6, 2009 at Riverside Church. The event is open to the public. The Rev. Robert B. Coleman, chief program minister of The Riverside Church will lead the service, which will include the eulogy… [Read more…]