The Other New York Giants

More on the old Polo Grounds Brush Staircase

Tony Dungy challenges you to be uncommon in 2012

Tony Dungy, retired head coach of the 2007 Super Bowl–winning Indianapolis Colts, guides us on a year long journey of faith with The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge. The Daily Challange contains 365 reflections from the #1 New York Times bestselling author on living an “uncommon life” of integrity, honoring your family and friends, creating… [Read more…]

Reebok Junior Tennis Academy Tryouts

City Parks Foundation’s Reebok Junior Tennis Academy celebrates its 25th Anniversary of providing a free, annual scholarship training program for talented New York City junior tennis players.  The program provides free expert coaching, practice time and tournament scholarship, while the Academy helps defray the cost of tournament tennis training so that more urban youngsters have… [Read more…]

Harlem Week Tri-State Junior Tennis Classic

Air Force 1: Anatomy of an Urban Legend Premiere

Last weekend The World Famous Apollo hosted the premiere of Air Force 1: Anatomy of an urban legend. The film, directed by Thibaut de Longeville and narrated by KRS-One, is an hour long documentary of the history of the sneakers known as “Uptowns.” The popular style of sneaker was introduced by Nike 25 years ago… [Read more…]

1 Love All Borough Block Party

Perhaps you have seen the signage and buses along 8th Avenue announcing the arrival of the World Basketball Festival taking place August 12-15. We’ll be doing another post about this event in the coming week, but perhaps you’ll want to venture downtown this weekend for the launch.

Delivering free bike helmets

How many times have you watched a bicycle delivery person recklessly swerve in and out of traffic at break-neck speeds without a helmet or any other type of protection? Not only are they putting their life  at risk, but they also breaking the law. On Thursday, Aug. 5 from 1 to 4 pm commercial delivery… [Read more…]

Harlem’s true colors

This weekend Harlem businesses showed their true colors.  The top photo shows Shrine dressed in a kaleidoscopic display of national pride that represents the countries that are competing in the FIFA World Cup. Score! The bottom photos show Billie’s Black draped in a brilliant rainbow of colors to celebrate Harlem’s 1st Gay Pride celebration.  You… [Read more…]