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Washington Heights and Inwood: The Taste of Way Uptown
Compiled by KRIS ENSMINGER
Along with the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park and the serene hiking trails in Inwood Hill Park, the uptown Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood are home to a number of intriguing restaurants.
809 SANGRIA BAR AND GRILL
(212) 304-3800; 112 Dyckman [...]

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KATHERINE DUNHAM SALUTE (Tomorrow) Eight dance companies, including Dance Theater of Harlem, Alvin Ailey and Philadanco, join Katherine Dunham’s daughter and other relatives to celebrate this great dancer-choreographer’s life. At 2 p.m., Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400; free. (La Rocco)

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NEW YORK (AP) _ A monument was unveiled Friday to the all-black 369th Regiment, known as the “Harlem Hellfighters,” who fought in France during World War I.
Located across the street from the 369th Armory in Harlem, the 12-foot-high black granite obelisk is a replica of the memorial that stands in Sechault in Northern France and [...]

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We usually don’t like to focus on stories like this but this one was so bizarre that we just couldn’t resist. Ripped from “Page Six” of the New York Post:
September 29, 2006 — MAYBE he finds it easier to write in prison. The former editor-in-chief of The Source magazine, David Blanks, has been arrested [...]

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

The Problem w/ Triple Candie Exhibit - 461 W. 126th Street @ Amsterdam
King Lear - Classical Theatre of Harlem
11am Up South International Book Festival - Harlem Stage @ The Gatehouse (formerly Aaron Davis Hall)
6pm African American Women Filmmakers - 163 W. 125th [...]

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The indie soul sensation known as Rob Murat will be performing at Harlem Grill on Oct. 5th at 8:00 p.m.

“Not your average” brother, Rob Murat acts as artist, lyricist and producer on his self-titled EP. Musical roots run deep within his family tree, resulting in a fresh generation of musical artistry redefined as Rob [...]

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Black Voices on AOL (BV Newswire) has reported that the new host of the long running syndicated variety hour “Showtime at the Apollo,” will be New York’s own Whoopi Goldberg. Goldberg, who recently launched a morning talk radio program, will be replacing fellow comedienne Mo’Nique who is busy with other ventures, including her “Fat [...]

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Not in Harlem if you don’t qualify for WIC. The New York Daily News reports that the price of milk will be raised an addition 25 cents per gallon starting on Sunday. The state’s threshold of $2.69 a gallon doesn’t even apply in Harlem where a recent survey found that whole milk is [...]

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For the first time, Museum Day is open to the general public as well as Smithsonian magazine’s subscribers. On September 30, 2006, for one day only, museums across the country will join the Smithsonian Institution in its long-standing tradition of offering free admission to visitors. For a list of participating museums click here. [...]

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The struggling East Harlem market, La Marqueta, has been in existence since the 1930s and has been attempting to revitalize for over 25 years. Renewed interest in East Harlem has resulted in numerous unsuccessful efforts to replace the current vestiges of La Marqueta with a brand new modern facility attracting vendors and customers reminiscent of [...]

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I would like to thank all of the readers who loyally read our site on a daily basis. I am pleased to see that we have acquired well over 10, 000 hits in the month that we have moved from the old site.
Thank you for your readership, submissions, comments, emails, feedback, enthusiasm, and thank [...]

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Nellie Bailey of WHCR’s Harlem Real Estate Review radio program, was a speaker at a lecture series hosted on the Columbia campus concerning the rapid gentrification of Harlem. Bailey, who is also the Director of the Harlem Tenant’s Council, predicts that:
Harlem would be lucky to hold on to half its black population over [...]

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The highest recorded sale in Harlem a year ago was $2.6 million; now it’s $3.8 million. There’s a Home Depot and a Target in the works: Harlem is no longer the uptown also-ran. The danger here is an oversupply of new construction—much of it, like the Nina on East 117th and the [...]

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251 West 125th Street
(between Adam Clayton and Frederick Douglass)
New York NY, 10027 US
(212)749-7434
 
You know how when you walk into a clothing store with a few people in it? That weird feeling that you get when you know that the bored salespeople are going to pounce on you and try to shove any piece of [...]

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Village Voice reviews Cote d’Ivoire cuisine [Village Voice]
The lightening face of Harlem [Star]
Follow up story on 22 Mount Morris West Shaft [Daily News]
Chicken Noodle Soup [UPI] with a Soda on the side. Webstar throws a Harlem block party to celebrate record release [Ballerstatus]
New York Times reports “An Uptown Renaissance (Again)”[NYTimes]
The Gatehouse opens doors to [...]

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For white people who might be having a little trouble with black-person hair, Carol’s Daughter is a fantastic hair product. We got it for Z. Now her hair has this beautiful luster. And it smells nice, too. (Brad Pitt as told to Esquire)

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Photo Credit: SL

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“Maybe you ought to move uptown where you’d be safer,” is a line from “Coffee Break,” a short story in The Best of Simple, by Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes.
Situated on the corner of 145th Street between Bradhurst and 8th Avenue, on the former site of an unoccupied building and adjoining empty lot, his namesake [...]

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Is the Upper West Side moving uptown or is Harlem moving downtown?
One of our readers presented the question of geographic boundaries in the comments section the other day:
I thought that the geographical boundaries of Harlem was/is 110th to 155th street, from the East river to the Hudson River. Now it appears that Harlem now runs [...]

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