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  East Harlem Focus
East Harlem Focus is a forum of East Harlem Preservation, a volunteer advocacy organization founded in 2005 to promote, preserve, and protect the neighborhood's rich cultural, architectural and environmental history.
East Harlem Chamber of Commerce President Henry Calderon was thus inspired to channel a gospel ballad “Calling All Angels” in his trumpet call to action.
East Harlem mourned the loss of veteran community advocate Eulalia “Marie” Dickson, who died January 5 at the age of 83.
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 East Harlem Preservation
East Harlem Preservation is a volunteer advocacy organization founded in 2005 to promote, preserve, and protect the neighborhood's rich cultural, architectural and environmental history.
East Harlem Preservation also conducts neighborhood tours, coordinates public forums and other projects promoting the neighborhood's culture and history, and extensively documents issues of local interest.
East Harlem Preservation has embarked on an exciting new initiative.
www.eastharlempreservation.org   (0 words)

  
 The East Harlem School - Home
The East Harlem School at Exodus House is a year-round middle school that teaches children from low-income families in East Harlem to develop academic excellence, moral integrity, courtesy, and an unshakeable commitment to their future and the fate of their community.
After 14 years of success, The East Harlem School is expanding to serve even more children in the Harlem community.
The Campaign for The East Harlem School is a multifaceted $15 million initiative to build a new school building on the original Exodus House site, allowing us to increase our student enrollment by 150%.
www.eastharlemschool.org   (0 words)

  
  East Harlem HIV Care Network -- Fact Sheet
East Harlem has a total population of over 110,508 representing 1.4% of New York City’s population yet has the second highest (4,330 per 100,000 adults) cumulative AIDS rate in the entire city (OAS 10/98).
East Harlem ranked #1 in teenage pregnancies and births to teens in 1996.
East Harlem zip codes 10029, 10035, 10037 ranked 178, 171, and 128 among 181 zip codes for injection drug users living with AIDS with 10029 and 10035 being in the ninetieth percentile (High Needs Index HIV Health and Human Services Planning /Council 4/98).
www.aidsnyc.org /network/factsheet.html   (970 words)

  
  NY PORTS ON LINE - HARLEM RBI
Located in East Harlem at 1st Avenue and 100th Street, Harlem RBI has established a unique sports and study program that uses the excitement of baseball to involve inner city youths in athletic and academic activities that promote teamwork, self-esteem and the ability to set and achieve goals.
Harlem RBI is a private, non-profit organization, registered as a 501(c)(3) under the auspices of The Parks Council.
Harlem RBI was launched in the summer of 1991 in East Harlem in an abandoned lot located off 1st Ave at 100th St. The Harlem RBI program operates year-round.
www.nysol.com /harlemrbi.html   (968 words)

  
 East Harlem Rezoning - New York City Department of City Planning
It is the first comprehensive revision of East Harlem zoning since the last major revision of the Zoning Resolution in 1961.
The area to be rezoned is generally between East 99th and East 122nd streets, east of Lexington Avenue in Manhattan’s Community District 11.
Residential midblocks in East Harlem are typified by rowhouses with consistent heights and street walls that line up along the sidewalks.
www.nyc.gov /html/dcp/html/eastharlem/eastharlem1.shtml   (362 words)

  
 East Harlem , a Neighborhood of New York City, NY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
East Harlem is a neighborhood in the midst of tremendous change, as well as one with a rich cultural fiber and history.
East Harlem of a century ago sat poised to become what the Upper East Side is today: a teeming stew of wealth and luxury.
Fortunately for East Harlem, however, residents and community action groups never lost hope or interest in their vibrant and unique community, and today this area is again a proud place to call home.
www.sarahomestay.com /ny/eharlem.htm   (495 words)

  
 HarlemOnline.com - History of Harlem
Currently, Harlem is from the East River to the Hudson River between 155th Street - where it meets Washington Heights.
Central Harlem begins at the northern end of Central Park at 110th Street; Spanish Harlem extends east Harlem's boundaries south to 96th Street...
In the 1830’s, many of Harlem’s farms were sold at public auctions due to the fact that they were depleted from decades of cultivation and abandoned.
www.harlemonline.com /community/history_of_harlem.html   (722 words)

  
 East Harlem Preservation Society   (Site not responding. Last check: )
East Harlem Preservation was founded in 2005 to promote, protect, and preserve the neighborhood's uniquely diverse cultural, historical, and architectural heritage.
East Harlem Preservation is not presently endorsed or financed by any corporate, nonprofit, governmental or political institution (or related individuals).
As we grow, we also plan to sponsor cultural projects promoting East Harlem history, and public forums on issues of local interest such as "Uptown NY," which calls for a 3-million square foot development to be built along East 125th-127th Streets, from Second to Third Avenue.
www.virtualboricua.org /Docs/uny_index.htm   (200 words)

  
 New York (city)/Harlem - Wikitravel
Harlem is a district of Upper Manhattan in the city of New York, recognised globally as a center of African-American culture and business.
The name "Harlem" can be used to designate all of Upper Manhattan south of Washington Heights and north of West 125th St. (West Harlem), Central Park (Central Harlem), and East 96th St. (East Harlem).
Further north from Harlem are Washington Heights and Inwood, unlikely to be on most tourists' radar screen but also fast improving from their days as by-words for urban blight.
wikitravel.org /en/New_York_(city)/Harlem   (1168 words)

  
 "Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy" author Thomas Webber is interviewed/Jazz/Jerry Jazz ...
Tommy Webber is nine years old when his father, a founding minister of the East Harlem Protestant Parish, moves the family of six from a spacious apartment in an ivy-covered Gothic-style seminary on New York City's Upper West Side to a small one in a massive public-housing project on East 102nd Street.
This was the middle of the Upper East Side of Manhattan -- one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the world -- and on the other side of 96th Street was Spanish Harlem, which was one of the poorest communities, and a place whites found to be very scary.
You wrote about the residents of East Harlem, "It is a world with its share of saints and sinners, heroes and hustlers, but mostly it is a neighborhood of common people working hard to make ends meet and struggling every day to raise their children the best way they know.
www.jerryjazzmusician.com /linernotes/east_harlem.html   (8431 words)

  
 Harlem RBI - Play. Learn. Grow.
Against this backdrop, East Harlem children who are born into poverty do not stand much of a chance of making it out.
Harlem RBI, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is a unique year-round youth development program in East Harlem, New York.
Harlem RBI’s mission is to use baseball and softball, and the power of teams, to provide inner-city youth with the opportunities to Play, to Learn, and to Grow, inspiring them to recognize their potential and realize their dreams.
www.harlemrbi.org /about.html   (232 words)

  
 Italian Harlem
In the twenties, Jewish Harlem began to be replaced by the expansion of Black Harlem in the north and the rise of El Barrio, that is, Spanish Harlem.
In 1930 and 1931 the East Harlem Nursing Service conducted employment surveys which showed that in a group of 363 families, 28 percent had work relief jobs, 21 percent worked in the private sector or the traditional civil service, 6 percent had irregular work, and 45 percent were unemployed.
Aside from its large size, the Lucky Corner rallies communicated to the residents of East Harlem the importance of their Congressmen, because they attracted people from outside East Harlem, were broadcast live on as many as three New York City radio stations, and were reported on in the press.
www.mountcarmelofeastharlem.com /italianharlem.html   (5616 words)

  
 Central Park East, Harlem, and New York school reform, by Brian Deer
In 1974, East Harlem ranked worst in reading and maths scores of all New York's 32 school districts, and only a quarter of children could read above the level for their grade.
Despite East Harlem's success, which has caused many parents from other parts of the city to choose its schools, the great majority of America's children are denied any meaningful choice.
East Harlem's philosophy rests crucially on its schools being able to exercise their own choices and vary the content and emphases in the courses they offer.
briandeer.com /social/harlem-schools.htm   (1893 words)

  
 Food a vital part of history of East Harlem
East Harlem is described as the area north of what is now 59th Street.
The cookbook, "Soul, Soy and Salsa," an East Harlem cookbook by Elizabeth Calvert (text) and Yushi Nomura (visualization), copyright 1979, was conceived the night Yushi cooked ton-katsu and Elizabeth asked for the recipe.
The East Harlem community is on the northeast part of the island of Manhattan in New York City.
www.eclecticcooking.com /FoodVitalPartHistoryEastHarlem.htm   (596 words)

  
 Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives: A Landmark Struggle
Harlem preservation activist Michael Henry Adams, author of Harlem Lost and Found, points to what he calls the "rampant elitism" of the commission and its tendency to overlook important sites in poor neighborhoods.
Though East Harlem borders the wealthiest part of Manhattan—the Upper East Side—cross the fault line of 96th Street and you enter a neighborhood still seen by many as a pocket of drugs, crime, and poverty.
But Adams says East Harlem is not the blighted neighborhood the rest of New York thinks it is. He points to the infusion of new restaurants, renovated loft-style housing renting for near market value, and bodegas that sell flowers and gourmet foods like Manhattan's more southerly neighborhoods.
www.nationaltrust.org /magazine/archives/arch_story/112103.htm   (1286 words)

  
 East Harlem Preservation
East Harlem Preservation works to promote, preserve, and protect the neighborhood's rich cultural, architectural and environmental history.
East Harlem Preservation created this social network on Ning.
East Harlem Preservation brought to you by East Harlem Preservation © 2007 Report an Issue
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 Harlem One Stop: Music, Art, Historic House & Walking Tours, Culture and more!
Harlem One Stop is your gateway to the culture and excitement of Upper
Washington Heights/Inwood, West, Central and East Harlem (El Barrio).
Harlem One Stop is funded by The Cultural Tourism Initiative, a project of The Arts & Business Council Inc., and The New York State Council on the Arts.
www.harlemonestop.com   (0 words)

  
 Curbed: Manhattan: Harlem & East Harlem Archives
I would love to know what your readers think—I know how they like to debate the future of Harlem and this is the biggest thing to happen there in the next few decades.
Lowdown: The website for 5th on the Park refers a lot to a "New Harlem," but this modern tower is bringing a touch of the old one: the ground-floor space will house a huge church cathedral, and the 47 rental apartments will be church-owned.
Above, a portion of a new PropertyShark map showing buildings with a high number of violations in Harlem and uptown Manhattan; after the jump, a look at the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy vortex of violations.
www.curbed.com /archives/categories/manhattan_harlem_east_harlem.php   (2093 words)

  
 Harlem - New York City Neighborhood - NYC
Harlem's new residents are strikingly diverse: straight and gay, fl and white, Asian and European.
Central Harlem stretches from Central Park North to the Harlem River and from Fifth Avenue to St. Nicholas Avenue.
West Harlem, including Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill, stretches from 123rd to 155th Streets and from St. Nicholas Avenue to the Hudson River.
nymag.com /realestate/articles/neighborhoods/harlem.htm   (710 words)

  
 Rent-Direct.com: Harlem - East Harlem Apartments NYC Apartment Rentals
From 1920 until about 1930, Harlem was the center of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that changed Harlem into an African-American enclave as fls fled the racism found in the other parts of the city.
Harlem went into decay, and hit bottom in the fiscal crises of the 1970s.
East Harlem (also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio) is primarily Puerto Rican and Dominican, although it began as an Italian community in the early 1900s.
www.rent-direct.com /harlem-apartments.html   (337 words)

  
 Italian Harlem   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first Italians arrived in East Harlem in 1878, from Polla in the province of Salerno, and settled in the vicinity of 115
Street, where an Italian priest celebrated East Harlem’s first Italian-language Mass.*18* The Italian craftsmen literally built Our Lady of Mount Carmel with their own hands after coming home from exhausting days of work; Italian junkmen and icemen lent their carts and horses to carry materials.
Aside from its large size, the Lucky Corner rallies communicated to the residents of East Harlem the importance of their Congressmen, because they attracted people from outside East Harlem, were broadcast live on as many as three New York City radio stations, and were reported on in the press.*39*
www.mibarrio.org /italian_harlem.htm   (5078 words)

  
 The East Harlem School
The East Harlem School recruits children from families with low income and helps these students develop academic excellence, moral integrity, courtesy, and an unshakeable commitment to their future and the fate of their community.
The East Harlem School at Exodus House is an independent middle school committed to maintaining an intimate community of learners.
No one is overlooked at The East Harlem School, and faculty and administration closely follow the long-term growth of every child over their years at the school.
www.volunteernyc.org /org/19326084.html   (408 words)

  
 East Harlem History Page 1
With the arrival of the English in 1664 Nieuw Haarlem's name was changed to "Harlem".
Some pictures are courtesy of East Harlem's La Guardia/Corsi House which is located at 307 East 116th Street, New York, NY 10029, (212) 534-7800 or from the Print Archives,
For further information on East Harlem please read the 197-A Plan from Community Board # 11.
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 Church as parish - Union Theological Seminary's East Harlem Protestant Parish Christian Century - Find Articles
These young ministers focused their attention on East Harlem, which was covered by Catholic parishes and dotted with Pentecostal and fundamentalist churches, but had virtually no mainline Protestant presence.
So these pastors moved in, seeking to create a ministry that was not simply located in East Harlem, but was built with and for the residents of East Harlem and for East Harlem itself.
A few early members of the East Harlem parish testified that the skills and disciplines honed in East Harlem prepared them for ministry in national and global contexts.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_34_115/ai_53460224   (920 words)

  
 The Tale of Three Harlems - December 4, 2006 - The New York Sun
By geography, East Harlem begins on 96th Street and runs to 135th Street between the East River and Fifth Avenue.
West Harlem is between 110th and 155th streets from St. Nicholas and Morningside Park to the Hudson River.
In the heart of Central Harlem, the topping off ceremony was at 111 Central Park North, a joint venture of the Athena Group and the City Investment Fund LP.
www.nysun.com /article/44549   (721 words)

  
 Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs - Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The tour was designed to give students a first hand perspective to the historical and cultural richness of East Harlem, better known as Spanish Harlem, and become familiar with the community they would be trained in for the next four years.
The tour has evolved into providing incoming first year students a social cultural experience of East Harlem where they can begin to develop knowledge and awareness of community health and cultural diversity; be exposed to a medically underserved community; as well as become informed about health disparity issues through community interaction and engagement.
This tour marks the beginning of a long walk they will take of the next four years of their training and education as physicians who be able to know what it means to treat patient as community.
www.mssm.edu /cmca/initiatives/east_harlem_walking.shtml   (448 words)

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