The Scoop: Kids, music, housing, basketball and cops
The cost of educating a child? $3500 a year in Harlem [WorldChanging]
Mrs. Imus in East Harlem – quite the fundraiser [Post]
Langston Hughes House now home to musicians [WNYC]
Three new affordable housing complexes being built uptown [Crain's]
Riverside church’s basketball team founder gets slammed dunked in suit [Daily News]
Monday night’s Columbia expansion meeting resulted in police intervention [CS]
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I’m starting to notice clear division of Harlem by way of awareness or lack there of. And example would be the tearing down of 135th & Lenox (where PanPan once stood, a diner of short term legend and staple – immortalized in the Alicia Keys video You Don’t Know My Name.
Two Harlem blogs, Plastic Animals guy who is a photo guy of construction and destruction, and Harlem Fur generally document and feature this type of action (deconstruction with big cranes, etc. of near landmarks (Panpan). But the demolition of Panpan went unnoticed by all blogs to my knowledge, certainly undocumented. It’s a huge ditch or hole now.
So I’m thinking Harlem Fur and the Plastic Animal guy seemed all things SoHa. I sense Flavor is tilted slightly to 145th-ish. Meanwhile the demolition of 135th & Lenox over a 2 week period is not mentioned by anyone. The opening of the new and very nice restaurant on 135th & Lenox “Cafe Veg” by the guy that owns Juice Bar on 125th goes unnoticed.
I’ve only heard of “SoHa” from the restaurant “Max’s SoHa” before 2006. Now I hear non-Harlem people speaking to me and using the term “SoHa”. I admit, the “feel” is different from Harlem below 125th South and above it.
I am just expressing something I am noticing in even the coverage and reference of Harlem by media and blogs. I see lines of division becoming stronger. Segmentation & separation. What it all means I am not sure. But the evidence is there and I’ve given examples.
116th St. is very different than 135th St. in all sorts of ways. Harlem is a big place.