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A new urban vision became reality today in Harlem with the opening of David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens. The building, residences for foster care graduates and low-income families, was co-developed by Jonathan Rose Companies and Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement (HCCI) to promote a better quality of life for its residents with community gardens, job [...]

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Get a FREE sneak preview of Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi latest film; HOMEGROWN: Hip-Life in Ghana this TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 7pm at Shrine World Music Venue in Harlem. Limited seating so come early to the Meet the Filmmaker Reception at 6pm and enjoy a 1-hour drink special.
Eli, a graduate of Tish School of the Arts at New [...]

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The MLB Network was a pipe dream just four years ago.  Today the reality of a new baseball only channel is likely to take root in Harlem.  The network anticipates turning a profit within the next year. Here are some excerpts from an article in The Sports Business Journal:
The channel will develop its state-of-the-art headquarters in [...]

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Two years ago, when [Ina MacArthur] decided to sell her property - an entire city block on St. Nicholas Ave. worth up to $15 million - she suddenly found herself with two new best friends.
One of them now owns the property, but as of today McArthur has only received $20,000.
“I was swindled,” the retired public school teacher [...]

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The Home Depot Inc. may walk away from long-standing plans to open a 100,000-square-foot store at East River Plaza, a major new development from Forest City Ratner Cos. and Blumenfeld Development Group.
Last week, Atlanta-based Home Depot acknowledged that it is reconsidering its lease in the 500,000-square-foot development, located on six acres adjacent to Franklin D. [...]

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‘Flow‘ at the Studio Museum in Harlem will feature 80 works by African artists  including Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko, Mounir Fatmi, Nicholas Hlobo, and Mustafa Maluka.
Related: Wall Street Journal

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National Endowment for the Arts Invites Entries to Design
Rosa Parks Statue for U.S. Capitol
Deadline: May 30, 2008.
The National Endowment for the Arts ( http://www.nea.gov/ ) has
announced a design competition, in partnership with the Joint
Committee on the Library and the Office of the Architect of the
Capitol ( http://aoc.gov/ ), for a statue of civil rights pio-
neer [...]

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Only for Established Arts Organizations
 
If you are an established arts organization in NYC and are contemplating either renting or buying a larger space a workshop, this workship led by Sarah Eisinger of Denham Wolf Real Estate Services, will cover an overview of current NYC real estate market and realities for arts organizations; key considerations for organizations contemplating [...]

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The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center will be hosting an Open House on Saturday, April 5th from 3 - 6 pm. presenting readings from work by Michel Marriott, K. C. Washington and Estes Jennings. Refreshments will also be served.

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Spring is the perfect time for rebirth.  No better way than by starting joining a yoga class for (beginners and intermediate students) at Your Rebirth Studio for only $8. No need to pre-register just wear something comfortable and come on in.
 
Meditation classes are only $5 per class.
 
Schedule:

Yoga class Mondays 6:15pm-7:30pm

Yoga class Wednesdays 7:30pm-8:45pm

Meditation Class Wednesdays 6:30pm-7:30pm
 
Your Rebirth
Healing Arts [...]

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The Apostle in Harlem

The Harlem church, St. Thomas the Apostle, is an exquisite piece of neo-Gothic architecture, its spiky terra-cotta crown resembling a wedding cake. Finished in 1907, the church first served Irish parishioners and then a black congregation that waned and withered, its Sunday Mass sparsely attended, its building in dire need of repairs, [...]

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Photo: NYTimes.com
Stephen F. Pekar, a geology professor from Queens College, was selling Shakira Brown, a 29-year-old Harlem middle school science teacher, on his expedition.
Her response: I’m in.
Dr. Pekar had found just the person for his Antarctica team: a talented, intrepid African-American teacher to be a role model for minority science students.

Read the whole story: New York [...]

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Going straight from the airwaves to outer space, legendary rapper and ‘renegade of funk’-meister Afrika Bambaataa will be getting his own XM Radioshow starting April 5 on XM Radio’s The Rhyme-XL Channel 65, at 10:00 p.m.
Currently you can hear Afrika Bambata and his crew broadcasting live from Harlem on WHCR-FM every Tuesday from 8 p.m. to [...]

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Rapper turned Photographer, D-Nice, deconstructs the so-called “revitalization” of Harlem through images posted on his photo blog.  Check out the images one frame at a time through the soulful eyes of photographer Derrick Jones.
Related: D-Nice on Myspace.com

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