Fatal shooting at Ralph J. Rangel Houses appears to be within guidelines. [Times]

Sharpton's National Action Network Seems To Be Missing Tax Filings. [Post]

Condoleezza Rice to be Rep. Charles Rangel's guest today at the Harriet Tubman school, P.S. 154. [Sun]

Small group tours Manhattanville with Community Board 9's urban planner. [Columbia Spectator]

Profile of Khalil Islam, the man who says he didn't shoot Malcolm X. [New York Magazine]

And in Bill O'Reilly news...

Harlem-born Daily News Editorialist Errol Louis defends O'Reilly, saying his comments were misrepresented, as does NPR's Juan Williams.

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On Columbia...

The Mayor supports Columbia's expansion. [Post]

The Borough President supports Columbia's expansion. [Times]

Both the Mayor and the Borough President support Columbia's expansion. [Sun]

Columbia's $32.5 million pledge for affordable housing, a park and landscaping for public housing. [Sun]

Something not expansion related, Lee Bollinger's sharp rebuke of Ahmadinejad. [Sun]

On real estate...

Former Bagel in Harlem gets some ink in the Sun for Into The Box, and in today's Video Of The Day "we look at the mass exodus of minorities from Manhattan and how our tiny island is beginning to look a lot like a saltine cracker."

Overseas investors take advantage of the weak dollar and buy up US. [Sun]

The Post lists a sample Harlem listing and sale:

Listing: Harlem three-bedroom, $755,000
A 1,085-square-foot family apartment with two baths at the Langston, a new-construction condo building on Bradhurst Avenue at 145th Street. Amenities include a doorman and courtyard with playground. Another plus: Buyers will not have to pay New York City transfer taxes. Agent: Sidney Whelan, Halstead Property, (212) 381-2346

Sale: $387,000
330 W. 145th St.
Two-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 801 square feet, with park views; Hamilton building is pet-friendly and features doorman, garage, gym and terrace. Maintenance $757.09, 40 percent tax-deductible. No board approval. Asking price $399,000, on market nine weeks.
Brokers: Neil Tilbury and Tony Von Meyers, Halstead Property

On everything else...

More on Bill O'Reilly's menu selection of his own foot at Sylvia's. [Times]
& [amNewYork]

Is Rangel outshining Schumer? [Sun]

The Harlem Quartet shows orchestra is not just for stodgy old people. [Times]

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So yesterday saw some news come out of Columbia's World Leaders Forum.

As a commenter on Bwog sums up Columbia President Lee Bollinger's firm criticism of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: ho. lee. shit.

Salon says that Bollinger's speech to the dictator is "likely to go down in history as one of the most bold and critical set-ups in modern memory."

For blog coverage of the event, check out:
Bwog (from where I stole the photo)
Gawker (with link to footage from CNN)
Gothamist
City Room

And from the MSM:
Times
Post
Sun
Sun Editorial
Newsday

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Cardinal Egan, responding to questions about the closing of Our LAdy Queen of Angels church on East 113th testily tells reporters "This isn't important. Go report on reality, and get serious." [Post]

Harlem pilgrimage to nurture roots in Ethiopia [Newsday]

And in Columbia news:

The Times has an Op-Ed on the Columbia expansion, which is free, as TimesSelect is finally dead. [Times]

And for those wondering about the constant patrol of news trucks, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be speaking at Columbia's World Leaders Forum today. [Times] [Post] [Daily News] [Newsday] [amNewYork] [Sun]

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Randalls Island water park development team doesn't seem to have any liquid assets. [Daily News]

Drug rehab clinic set to open behind Washington Heights school either trying to get them while they are young or a really, really bad idea. [Daily News]

Bowling is not just for cricket: Harlem Lanes gets a write up. [Daily News]

And on to Columbia news...

Buffoonery at Borough President's hearing on Columbia's expansion plan somewhat more subdued than at previous meeting; at least they waited for David Dinkins to finish speaking before booing. [Columbia Spectator]

CB9 tucks away Nick Sprayregen's 197-c Manhattanville rezoning plan for his business with 16-15 vote. [Columbia Spectator]

Columbia set to build new housing for tenants displaced by Manhattanville expansion, and set up program allowing tenants to buy their new homes. [Columbia Spectator]

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Huge dude on a mission will match up kids and sports will be doing just that at the Harlem Armory on the 29th. [Post]

Former executive director and president of the Studio Museum in Harlem is now a curator at the Museum of Arts & Design. [Times]

And speaking of the arts and stuff to do...

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. Saturday at 1 p.m., “East Harlem Baseball: Walking Tour,” with a curator-led tour of the exhibition “The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957,” on view at the museum through Dec. 31, followed by a visit to a baseball exhibition at the nearby Julia de Burgos Cultural Center and a stop at an old-timer’s stickball game on 104th Street and Madison Avenue. Free with Museum admission: $9; $5 for members, students and 62+, free for children under 12; $20 for families; reservations required: (212) 534-1672; mcny.org. [Times]

NOSHWALKS Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., East Harlem spots that specialize in Caribbean, Mexican, French and Italian foods, meeting at the Malcolm Shabazz African Market, West 116th Street between Fifth Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard. (212) 222-2243; noshwalks.com. $35. [Times]

THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: 'MIDNIGHT'S DAYDREAM,' through Oct. 28. The three artists in this show were artists in residence at the Studio Museum of Harlem in the last year, but their work represents very different approaches. Titus Kaphar is the classicist, taking European and American portrait paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and reconfiguring them into strategic compositions. Wardell Milan II is the archetypal collagist, photographing arrangements of art reproductions, family photos and images cut from magazines. Demetrius Oliver is the Conceptualist, working in the trickster vein of David Hammons and Duchamp. All three, however, actively confront race and (art) history, which often seems a mandate for young black artists. 144 West 125th Street, (212) 864-4500, studiomuseum.org. (Schwendener) [Times]

ANNUAL ASTHMA MARCH, Saturday at 10 a.m., a two-and-a-half mile march beginning at the office of Melissa Mark-Viverito, city councilwoman, 105 East 116th Street, and ending at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building, 163 West 125th Street, Harlem. Sponsored by the East Harlem Asthma Working Group, a consortium of health professionals and social and community leaders formed in 1996 to promote programs to combat asthma in homes and schools in the community. Also, breakfast will be available at the starting location beginning at 9 a.m., and there will be asthma screenings for those 18 and younger as well as lunch and raffles from noon to 4 p.m. at the ending point. (646) 331-4565. Free. [Times]

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This is an amazing thing to watch: Nick Sprayregen, owner of Tuck-It-Away Storage and main Columbia foe who riled up Harlem anti-gentrification activists against the University's expansion, is now proposing that in exchange for his buildings, Columbia give him lots in the expansion zone to build 25-story residential towers of market rate housing.

Will there be any low income units? Oh, of course, if the University subsidizes them, that is.

One of the towers would go up where the Nash building stands, a building the same anti-gentrification and preservationist activists sought to preserve. [Columbia Spectator]

Sick of banks and pharmacies being the only new retail? Someone in the City Council has heard your pleas for a better shopping selection, and are proposing ideas from tax breaks to mom and pop shops to "a zoning proposal in the works for 125th Street in Harlem that would bar banks, offices, and hotels from occupying first-floor retail space, except to allow entrances and lobbies." Chipotle, thankfully, is allowed. [Sun]

Despite the nation's credit crunch, the sale of parking garages for conversion to office and residential space continues, with a four-story garage on 132nd between Lenox and Adam Clayton Powell on the market. [Sun]

Looking for a penthouse below a million bucks? The Langston is your best bet. Plus, it has parking, you know, which seems to be a more difficult thing to find these days. [Sun]

And it's not just parking garages that are undergoing conversions. The trend of condos springing up all around continues, with some appearing in rental buildings at the expense of residents' safety. [Newsday]

amNewYork has an article in the print edition titled The new, old Harlem, Vibrant black middle class survies gentrification, but I can't find it online.

And in culture, which is kinda like real estate, in the sense that it's an integrated pattern of human knowledge and all...

Harlem-born Daily News editorialist Errol Louis says comedian Eddie Griffin, "like Michael Richards and Don Imus before him," is out of touch using the N-word. [Daily News]

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It's that time of year again when kids get schooled, and this year brings a greater ability for principals to decide how, exactly, this will happen. [Times]

Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem, holds a senior position at Khalil Gibran International Academy, Brooklyn's Arabic-language school. [Post] & [CNSNews]

Just because restaurants are shedding elegance and formality, don't expect dining to cost less. High rents, including those in Harlem, play a role. [Times]

Looking to make your own dinner with fresh, really fresh, chicken? Uptown offers a few places to buy live poultry. [Sun]

Nick Sprayregen, one of Columbia's most difficult obstacles to overcome, pulls the old Affordable Housing press ploy. [Observer]

William R. Hudgins, who helped found black-owned banks Freedom National and Caver Federal Savings, where he served as president, passes at 100. [Times]

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Huh?... CDC data show that nurses are more likely to be obese than the average American. So Harlem's North General teamed up with Jenny Craig in February, with promising results. [Chicago Tribune]

Brooklyn teenager shot on East Harlem street passes after being removed from life support. [Daily News]

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US Open! US Open! US Open! It comes down to viewing the tape, but James Blake looses to Tommy Haas. [Times]

Wanna be guaranteed that your skyline view will not be taken away? 111 Central Park North is a good option. [Times]

And the beat goes on... Marcus Garvey Park drummers still making news. [NPR]

Now teaching the triple-round-the-back-off-the-point-guard's-nose-while-driving-an-ice-cream-truck move in that big court in the sky, former Harlem Globetrotters coach Russell Ellington passed away Saturday morning. [Times]

Looking for that je ne sais quoi in an education, a Harlem school hosts the city's French dual language program. [Times]

Kinda like getting an Achilles heal, a man is shot in ankle on West 132nd. [Post]

Sweet- Rodney LoveJones starts a Harlem cupcake shop. [ABC 7]

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What I missed yesterday: An opinion piece by Harlem-born writer Errol Louis about the strange, childish behavior of Columbia protesters at this month's CB9 meeting. [Daily News]

Bonus: the YouTube video Louis talks about. The feature allowing me to embed the video was turned off by the person who uploaded it, so you will have to click through.

Anyway, on to today's news...

Funeral for an East Harlem woman who protested her church's closing held on sidewalk of that church. [Times] [Post] [amNewYork] & [Newsday]

US Open! US Open! US Open! James Blake, who started playing in Harlem, beats beats Frenchman Fabrice Santoro. Santoro probably rides scooter to private location, weeps softly while eating baguette. [Times]

Key part of Mayor Bloomberg's anti-poverty plan now rests with Congressman Charlie Rangel. [Sun]

Congressman Rangel takes on interior decorating, starts with portrait of himself. [Post] & [Daily News]

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Can Starbucks really be a bargain compared to Dunkin' Donuts? Possibly! Each store is individually owned and sets their own prices, with some of the most expensive and cheapest prices being just 0.32 miles away from each other in Harlem. [NY Press]

To know the truant's mind, one must think like a truant. [Times]

When grilling this weekend, why not accent your meat-induced cardiac arrest with Dinosaur Bar-B-Que's salt potatoes? [Sun]

New York Bar-B-Que is poo-pooed overall, with Oklahoma Smoke taking a direct hit. [Sun]

A brief remembrance of Harlem-raised tennis great Althea Gibson. [Daily News]

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Harlem Park, still just an empty lot next to MetroNorth, getting people's undies in a bundle. [amNewYork / Newsday]

Cassandra Wilson fills in for Max Roach's ex-wife Abbey Lincoln at last weekend's the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival to good review. [Times]

It was a fire in the Schomburg Plaza 20 years ago that resulted in FDNY's standardized inspections. [Times]

The fat lady sings in the nabe: City Opera's plans for reaching out to new audiences includes taking productions to venues that include the Apollo. [Sun]

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Two Harlem girls move on to Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge semifinals. [Post]

Will Friedwald recaps the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. [Sun]

About 100 protest in East Harlem over gentrification. [Newsday] and [Daily News]

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East Harlem parents successful in stopping selling of hats that allow wearers to show Yankee / gang pride. [Newsday] [Post] and [Times]

Who says kids are lazy: 20 year old Harlem man and friend save three from burning West 148th St. building. [Post] and [Newsday]

West 142nd Street home goes into contract for just under $2.9 million. [Times]

East Harlem residents protests rent increases. [amNewYork]

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Harlem's subway hero says he's just a normal guy. [Post]

Columbia Business School grad focuses her life on parks, not profits, by rebuilding playgrounds across the city. [Sun]

East-West basketball match-up kicks off this evening at 7:30 in Rucker Park. [Newsday]

East Harlem parents try to stop selling of hats that allow wearers to show Yankee / gang pride. [Newsday] and [Post]

And from the Daily News, another story on the Columbia expansion that does not seem to be online. The full text after the jump.

Continue reading "Some Of The Harlem News That's Fit To Click: A Day In The Park Edition" »

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The shy Harlem-based milliner Susan Saas feels "more powerful" under one of her hats. [Times] Hat Photo!

Three artists at The Studio Museum in Harlem "broadcast their personal delirium in the hope of a receptive audience." [Sun]

Harlem-bred songstress Eartha Kitt is the inspiration behind MAC cosmetics fall Smoke Signals line. [Post- second one down]

And from the neighborhood, real estate side of things...

Two-bedroom, two-bath co-op, with 920 square feet at 100 St. Nicholas Ave. just sold for... [Post]

Manhattanville, "a post-industrial neighborhood sandwiched between Columbia University and the upper reaches of Harlem's west side," gets a lengthy profile. [amNewYork]

How is Manhattanville? Resident Georgy Whitfield tells all. [amNewYork]

Virtual doormen make their way Uptown (SoHo North in the article photo). [amNewYork]

East Harlem landlord offering buyouts of rent controlled apartments that look like sweepstakes winnings. [WNYC]

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French to be the lengua franca of three NYC public schools, including Harlem's Intermediate School 22. [Times]

Harlem school makes 'persistently dangerous' list. [Times]

Bloomberg broke ground on the second phase of the Harlem River Park Greenway and Esplanade, checked out that pirate dude's wherry. [Times] & [Post] That pirate dude. [Harlem Fur]

Getting schooled: Journalists make mistakes too; It's Huey, not Hoey, and the Harlem Book Fair is on 135th Street, not 145th. [Times]

Another review of Monday's CB9 vote on Columbia's expansion into Manhattanville. [Newsday]

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Bobby's Happy House, of of the much talked about record shops off 125th slated for closing, makes the Times. [Times]

In a second Community Board vote in two weeks, last evening saw a conditional vote for Columbia. [Metro]

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Another review on last week's Columbia expansion plan meeting along with a reminder that there is a full Community Board 9 meeting on it this evening. [Daily News]

And speaking of hot ViVa locations, are you looking for a great sangria? The Hudson River Cafe has two, with the recipe for one in the article. [Times]

And speaking of newish Harlem restaurants, the Times has a quick run down of other greater Harlem venues. [Times]

And speaking of romantic evenings together, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and the Rev. Al Sharpton get all mushy over each other. [Post]

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A first quick recap on what took place at CB9's meeting on Columbia's plan. [Daily News]

A second quick recap on what took place at CB9's meeting on Columbia's plan. [Sun]

And speaking of new developments, have you taken your niacin? The Church of Scientology is purchasing buildings on 125th Street. [Post]

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Yikes, not only did Columbia get booed, but so did David Dinkins as the "community loudly, rudely and disrespectfully declared their independence from the Harlem political establishment." [New York Press]

And it seems police had to keep as many as a hundred Columbia opponents outside when the venue reached capacity. [WYNC]

In his comments for the record, CB9 chair Jordi Reyes-Montblanc supported the idea that both sides would have to give on certain issues and compromise was desirable. "The community must get over its suspicion and dread of the Columbia expansion and Columbia must overcome the feelings that they know better what is good for West Harlem and our people," he wrote. [Columbia Spectator]

And lastly, a fair review of last night's meeting from the Times. [NYT / City Room]

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Anthony Reeves had his 2003 Honda Odyssey crushed when a five-story apartment building at 131st Street and Park Avenue in Harlem collapsed after the deluge.

"I hope to God they are not under there," said Reeves. "I'm just glad I'm not under there." [Post]

WCBS has footage of the building post collapse. [WCBS]

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The old "Are you a player or a spectator?" line gets blurred at Rucker Park as EBC Classic fans become both. [Daily News]

Restaurant Management Boot Camp, a free city service, gives people a healthy understanding of the challenges behind opening a restaurant of one's own. [Times]

East Harlem-raised contestant of Hell's Kitchen, Elsie Ramos, wins with taco cookbook. [Daily News]

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly addresses stop-and-search procedures with Harlem's African-American business leaders. [Sun]

And from the It-Showed-Up-In-The-Comments department:

"ellen," who writes in at the completely reasonable hour of 1:47am, has word on life around The Lenox (sic's are ellen's): "Te building on Lenox and 126th St is a bank and it will also house the NBA world headquarters." Sounds reasonable. "ROberta Flax is suppose to be openning a dance academy there too." Hey, who can't use a new move or two? "The deli on 130th is all newly redone and almost ready to open." A good development.

And then this one wraps it up: "Right in our building a high end car dealership is signed a lease. Its going to sell Rolls Royces and Lamborghinis and Ferraris." Ah, is this real? Did someone take the sequel idea for my Harlem blogger action movie too seriously, or is that guy from Emperor's Roe convinced that some insanely out of context luxury retail will work if he just finds out which one it is?

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Columbia agrees to buy the warehouse of one of the remaining three major Manhattanville landowners. [Sun]

Speaking of buying versus eminent domaining, Presidential candidate John McCain takes a big stand against eminent domain calling it a "threat both to property rights and the free market." [Sun]

And speaking of the NY Sun having most of the Harlem-related articles today, the Dance Theater of Harlem's Street Festival 2007, complete with a "Harlem's Got Talent" competition, is Saturday, 12-7pm on West 152nd St. [Sun]

And speaking of Harlem festivals, Uptown fashion shops Montgomery, B. Oyama, Pieces and Denim Library will have an August 16th runway show at the River Room. [WWD]

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The NY Times runs a story on Central Harlem in the real estate section today similar to a previous Sun article or two, but with fewer glaring errors.

A Neighborhood Worth the Big-Ticket Investment [Times]

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The traditional baking of injera, an Ethiopian bread, continues in Harlem. [Times]

Secrets of Senegalese cuisine, including the official name of Patisserie des Ambassades, revealed. [Times]

Wondering about the official name of Patisserie Des Ambassades. [Harlem Fur]

For those seeking ingredients and a way to cool down, Fairway's freezer makes yet another coolest spots list. [Daily News]

And for food tourists, here is a rendering and rundown on the luxury hotel planned for 125th and 5th Ave. [Post]

Photo of a dish at Africa Kine I enjoyed a couple weeks back.

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My being totally wiped by the gym has carried over into this morning, resulting in a compressed press roundup:

A review of the Studio Museum in Harlem's exhibit ''David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings,'' shows an architect who "seems painfully attuned to the damage that architecture can do." Hmmm, a few people here in Harlem could take cues from him. [Times]

For those who have wondered aloud here and elsewhere about how many jobs Empire Zone tax breaks have created, the answer seems to be for 3,000 companies, not many at all. [Times]

Obama differentiates his anti-poverty proposals from Edwards by focusing on the Harlem Children's Zone, ''an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort,'' as a model. [Times, after the jump]

Continue reading "Some Of The News That's Fit To Click" »

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Saying good-bye to a nabe institution, Copeland's served last Sunday brunch. [Newsday] Also in NY Sun.

East Harlem Little League held on "like professional ballplayers" into extra innings, but missed out on championships 15-14. [Daily News]

From the weekend:

Inspiring stories by people who, with discipline and determination, bought New York homes without help from family or Wall Street bonuses. [Times]

Record store Bobby's Happy House, Neighbor to Shikulu Shange's Harlem Record Shack, is also facing eviction. [Daily News]

Forget the $50 million in debt talked about before, New York City's public housing has a $225 million hole "this year alone." [Daily News]

Too many construction delays prompt a couple to cancel their Manhattan Ave purchase and opt for Riverside Drive. [Times]

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East Harlem Little League team go on to state championship despite losing their field. [Daily News]

City public housing projects troubled, and $50 million in debt. [amNewYork]

UPTOWNflavor has the scoop on new 124th Street shoe store Head Over Heels. [UPTOWNflavor]

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I'm only finding one Harlem article in the main stream media today, and it feels like we have read this one before:

City's Developers Agree: 'Harlem Has Arrived' [Sun]

But here is the new material:

Next month, construction is scheduled to begin on Hotel 124, a 130,000-square-foot property located on 125th Street and Fifth Avenue. It is the first new hotel in Harlem in more than 40 years and may include residential condominiums on the top floors. The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone intends to provide a $2.8 million subordinated loan, based on a projected project cost of $75 million, which will create in excess of 61 full-time permanent jobs for the community...

A developer, Wharton Realty, which is owned by Jeff Sutton, one of Manhattan's most active retail landlords, is planning to construct a 230,000-square-foot tower on the corner of West 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. It would contain retail, a community facility, and apartments. Real estate sources say Bed Bath & Beyond may be the anchor tenant...

Across the street, adjacent to the Apollo, a joint venture of Grid Properties and the Gotham Organization, the developers of Harlem USA, are planning to build a30,000-square-foot retail complex at 261 W. 125th St...

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Just because the sun wakes me up by beaming right on my face, here are today's links to Harlem in the main stream media:

Classical Theater of Harlem's production of Romeo and Juliet will include performances in Marcus Garvey Park. [Sun]

For more info on the August 3rd and 4th performances, check out the website. [Classical Theater of Harlem]

Diabetes deaths are up 71 percent in the city, with East Harlem one of the hardest hit nabes. [Daily News]

And from yesterday...

Perhaps more authentically Italian than Rao's, East Harlem barber hosts Mafia clientele. [Daily News]

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I'm taking care of a neighbor's cats while she is away early this week, which cut into my morning routine. With a compressed amount of time, here are the articles found first this morning:

Copeland's, a mainstay of Hamilton Heights, will hold its last gospel brunch at 1 p.m. on Sunday before closing. [Times] Also in the Daily News and The Real Deal.

Congressman Charles Rangel looking to establish City College center that bears his name. [Post]

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Given that UPTOWNflavor is possibly Jason Bourne and possibly not coming home until August 3rd, Cimbi and I thought we would fill in with links to the morning's news.

No Harlem News. At least not that Cimbi could find by Googling with small cat paws. So, we offer some events going on in and around the hood starting this evening.

Friday, July 20

For the bibliophiles: The Wheatley Book Award ceremony takes place this evening from 7pm to 10pm, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This evening's ceremony is dedicated to Octavia Butler and Ossie Davis. You will want to reserve seating, which can be done easily by sending an email to rsvp@qbr.com.

For the perverts: Many of us view Central Park as our collective back yard, so why not run around it in our underwear? We would, but registration is full for this evening's 7:30pm Chipotle Underwear Run. However, this does not mean that you can't come oogle cheer on those who did register.

It starts at Central Park's dubious-sounding Dead End Road. You will know you are in the right place when you see a bunch of people ready to run dressed in boxers, boxer briefs, tighty whities and sports or full coverage bras. If the people you see are wearing thongs or sheer materials, you might be in the wrong place. In that case, you should run.

Saturday, July 21st

Start the morning off with a little exercise. You can still register on-site tomorrow morning for the 4 mile Run for Central Park. Be there in advance of the 8:30am start gun. The run begins on Central Park's East Drive near 68th Street.

The much talked about Harlem Book Fair is taking place Saturday. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on West 135th Street from 5th to 7th Avenues. For a complete listing of everything taking place, please check out the website.

Now that you have read the book, see the movie. The Harlem Teen Film Festival features short films, 2 minutes to 22 minutes in length, exploring subjects like military recruitment, drug addiction and gun violence on the streets of New York. From 3 to 5 p.m., the Harlem School of the Arts, 647 St. Nicholas Avenue, at 141st Street, Hamilton Heights, (212) 926-4100.

After a day of exercise and culture, you will need a drink. Stop by Minton's Playhouse to celebrate the Harlem Book Fair with Harlem World from 7 to 10pm. Author Erica Simone Turnipseed will give a reading and signing of her new paperback, HUNGER and featuring music from A LOVE NOIRE/HUNGER: The Soundtrack with LEANiN6 and special guests.

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Given that UPTOWNflavor has gone COMPLETELY FREAKING AWOL!!!, Cimbi and I thought we would fill in with links to the morning's news.

The Sun has a profile on Nicholas Sprayregen, owner of Tuck-It-Away self-storage, former marathon runner, and "the most formidable obstacle to Columbia University's 17-acre expansion." [Sun]

Nonetheless, Columbia expands its holdings with the purchase of two more buildings today. [The Real Estate]

And speaking of Columbia's expansion, here is a succinct article on the difference between the Community Board's 197-A plan for ViVa and Columbia's 197-C plan. [Architectural Record]

A Business Week article on the Harlem Park office tower includes renderings of the building's back, showing an even more geometrically complex structure than the front. [Business Week]

And speaking of buildings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania-born architect David Adjaye's exhibit Making Public Buildings opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem. [Studio Museum]

And speaking of more buildings, WNYC reports big real estate firms are buying up buildings in nabes that include Harlem. [WNYC]

Although not really news, Cimbi offers a link to this 13-gigapixel panorama of South Harlem. The work by Gerard Maynard uses 2,045 photos stitched together, giving an amazing amount of detail from his perch on Adam Clayton Powell and 110th Street looking north.

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Given that UPTOWNflavor is on vacation (possibly in transit!), Cimbi and I thought we would fill in with links to the morning's news.

Youngest and first black pilot to fly solo around the globe celebrates at Rao's in East Harlem. [Times] Experience Aviation [Pilot's Website]

Former Spanish Harlem resident Suzanne Vega doesn't miss the dirty, falling apart days of New York. [Daily News]

Harlem Park and New York Observer kid boss make Harlem Real Estate news. [Post]

Also Renderings for office development Harlem Park continue to astound. [Curbed]

And from yesterday, when Cimbi did not get up early:

Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins talks about the failure of congestion pricing: "I think there was a golden opportunity to really do something remarkable. But there seems to have been an air of you've got to do this because - almost a holier than now attitude." [Sun]

Teen boy shot in the back on 116th between Second and Third Avenues. [Post]

Woman held captive as sex slave in East Harlem apartment. [Post]

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Given that UPTOWNflavor is on vacation (location unknown!), Cimbi and I thought we would fill in with links to the morning's news.

Bloomberg makes a Harlem stop in his last minute push to reduce asthma-causing exhaust with congestion pricing. [Times] And from yesterday. [Daily News]

Uptown preservationist Carolyn Kent wins Angel award. [Daily News]

Who says kids are lazy these days? US-born Mexican teenagers step up to help illegals in their community. [Times]

Wheelchair-bound mom saves her kid when an air conditioner burst into flames. [Post]

Get ready to hear a lot of trance music: High Long Island property taxes are a major force driving people into city areas including Harlem. [Newsday]

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Parishioners keep faith alive on the sidewalk in front of closed church. [Times]

Hair cut enthusiast Damon Dash, thru fame and fortune, holds onto the chair from his 112th St barber shop. [Times]

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Given that UPTOWNflavor is on vacation running the Missoula, MT Marathon this Sunday, July 15th (Go UPTOWNflavor!), Cimbi and I thought we would fill in with links to the morning's news.

We've only found one article this morning, but damn if Columbia University's announcement that it will not use eminent domain to evict residents of 132 apartments isn't a big one. [Times]

More on the annoucement in The Real Estate.

And what Cimbi missed from yesterday...

Conversion of a long vacant school into condos is causing some to look down their glasses with a disapproving glare while tapping a ruler on the open palm of their free hand. [Sun]

The Daily News had an article on the entrepreneurial undertakings of Broadway stars Lisa Rinna and Brenda Braxton. Brenda started BBraxton, the upscale men's grooming salon in 116th St and 5th Ave. I can't find the article on the Daily News site, so here it is after the jump.

Continue reading "All The Harlem News That's Fit To Click" »

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Given that UPTOWNflavor is on vacation this week in Clearwater, NE (pop 384), Cimbi and I thought we would fill in with links to the morning's news.

Landlord Pinnacle Group, never living up to its name, is sued by tenants for racketeering. [Times]

It's not the $225,000 you'd pay in Chelsea, but a parking spot in Harlem can still cost nearly $50,000. [Times]

And with parking so affordable, why not pick up a 3,800 sq foot 127th St. townhouse for $2.295 million? [Post]

Sunday night will see Hillary Clinton in the nabe for a little bowling. Rumors has it this is a planned fundraiser, not the result of Clinton strategist Howard Wolfson using the timeless Lebowski quote "Fuck it Dude, let's go bowling." [Daily News]

Harvard graduate kid leaves white shoe Boston firm, moves to Harlem as beat cop. [New York Press]

And from yesterday...

East Harlem shoe vendor waxes about being looted in '77 [Post]

The Sun makes wine recommendations and you can buy them in Harlem? Must be at Harlem Vintage. [Sun]

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