After much anticipation, Best Yet Market has finally opened! I’ve heard nothing but high praise for the clean store, friendly staff, and fresh produce. Best Yet just might be the best supermarket in Harlem. Take a video tour of the Harlem store on the Best Yet website.
A friend went shopping at Best Yet this weekend and had this to say about the new store:
very fresh produce and meats delicious hot/cold food bar pizza bi-level with escalator/elevator access café groceries packed in two generously sized recyclable bags helpful smiling staff
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On February 8th the Boy Scouts of America turns 100. By pretty much any measure Scouting has been a big deal–112 million Americans have been members. Alumni are as diverse as America itself– Steven Spielberg, Mike Bloomberg, Percy Sutton, David Lynch, Bob Gates, Donald Rumsfeld, Marion Barry, Michael Moore, Barney Frank and Gerald Ford are (were) all Eagle Scouts. To celebrate, Tico Perez, the National Scout Commissioner, will ring the bell to open the Stock Market.
A special screening of the film will take place at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem on February 8th. The irrepressible Hellura Lyle, host of the successfulDocwatchers series, has sponsored this screening. The event is free (but a donation for Docwatchers is recommended) and it is first come first served. Doors open at 7PM and the address is 343 Lenox between 127th and 128th. We were pleased to learn that Congressman Charlie Rangel–Harlemite, Purple Heart recipient and Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee will join us and say a few words about the Boy Scouts, Harlem and the film.
A casual after party will take place around 9 PM at Shrine located at 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. between 133rd and 134th.
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New York Insider: Harlem Writer Stacy Parker Aab shares her reasons for living in and loving Harlem.
Find out more about Stacy by visiting her website.
East Harlem resident Gil Scott-Heron talks about his new CD, “I’m New Here,” the first in over 16 years.
Read more: NPR
Photographs of President Barack Obama’s first year in the White House are now on display at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. The exhibit features close to 80 photographs taken by chief official White House photographer Pete Souza and 35 watercolors documenting African-American history from colonial times to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The two shows are running together under the title “365 Days, 390 Years In The Making.” The exhibit runs through April 18.
Are there any thriftshops that accept donated used goods in Harlem?
Yes. I like to donate to the Goodwill on 5th Avenue near 135th Street. There is another on the east side of Harlem and a Salvation Army on 125th Street near Madison Avenue.
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ICU patients at Harlem’s North General Hospital 4 times more likely to get deadly infection: report [DN]
Despite recent stabbing, crime down in Harlem [CS]
Harlem’s 125th Street is now considered one of the great streets in the United States [SPX]
New Play Puts an Old Face on Race [NYT]
Riverton Houses in Harlem to Be Sold in Foreclosure [NYT]
No solution for unhoused [CL]
10 Americans in Haiti Are Charged With Abduction [NYT]
“The blacks who are enraged by “Precious” have probably figured out that this film wasn’t meant for them.” [NYT]
Harlem Costco Struggles to Catch On [FOXNY]
Read our previous post on this topic: Pioneer Closing
Blumstein’s department store for many years was Harlem’s largest. The handsome Art Nouveau-style 1923 building was designed by Robert Kohn and Charles Butler (who with Clarence Stein designed Temple Emanu-El of 1927-29 on Fifth Avenue at 65th Street). In the 1930s, local residents, led by the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., boycotted Blumstein’s, where all the customers were black, yet where only whites were hired for clerk and cashier positions. Blumstein’s began to hire blacks, and in time gave America its first black department-store Santa.
Read more: NY Times Archives
Report: Most Low-Wage Workers Are Cheated of Pay [CR]
Harlem Hip-Hop Tours (H3 Tours) and HOT 97 have teamed up to provide the HOT 97 Experience Tour [24-7]
Wyclef Jean Talks About Haiti Relief Efforts in NY [ABC]
Inmates’ Stock Is Rising in Albany District Fight [NYT]
Real Estate Is Top Giver to Cuomo Campaign [CR]
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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 Falls [NYT]
Tableau at Met Museum portrays life of Harlem block [Reuters]
Neighborhood groups organize Haiti aid [CS]
Anecdotal Evidence Suggests Recession Pushing More Men To School [WNEM]
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