FOOD IN NEW YORK EXHIBITION AT MCNY
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by Ulysses
9M ago
Food in New York exhibition at Museum of the City of New York, 104th Street and Fifth Avenue. Food is a powerful social network binding New Yorkers to each other and with countless others across the globe. The city's raucous restaurant scene; its ubiquitous street food; the current activist efforts to source food locally; the world's largest food market in Hunts Point; and the artists, thinkers, and designers who are imagining new sustainable ways to relate to food, will all be part of Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate. The exhibition will examine the challenging nodes and networks ..read more
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SHOP: PLANT CORNER ON LENOX AVENUE
Harlem Bespoke
by Ulysses
9M ago
Harlem Bespoke:  One of the local stores to support for the warmer season is Plant Corner on Lenox by West 119th Street which is just over a year old now.  Stop for some green gifts including pots and more unique accessory items for the plant lovers in your life. The new brownstone boutique has a lot of hard to find greenery for the indoors and outdoors along with some of the more familiar flora standards for the home. This is the place for plant enthusiasts to check out in Harlem so drop by to see what this cool specialty shop has to offer.  More on Plant Corner can be ..read more
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DWELL: 205 WEST 139TH STREET TOWNHOUSE
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by Ulysses
9M ago
Harlem Bespoke: A historically distinguished brownstone at Number 205 West 139th Street by Adam Clayton Powell within the Strivers Row Landmark District has recently arrived on the market for $2.75 million $2.595 million and is in the much coveted single-family layout.  McKim, Mead and White was the most renowned architects of the gilded age and built these townhouses as a cornerstone to one of Harlem's most beautiful block.  There are a lot of original details within along with a garage and private driveway out back that each Strivers Row home is notably known for.   ..read more
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CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM IN JULY
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by Ulysses
9M ago
Harlem Bespoke: Outdoor theater returns to Harlem with the Classical Theatre of Harlem's production of Malvolio at Marcus Garvey Park in July.   One of the must-see experiences of summer!  Tuesday-Sunday, July 8th-29th, 8:30PM, Malvolio at Richard Rodgers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park, 122nd Street and Mount Morris Park West, FREE to the public.   An irreverent comedy and sequel to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night It’s wartime. A lowborn steward, Malvolio, has risen to the rank of general. He is determined to seek vengeance on a cast of char ..read more
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SHOP: SATURDAY AT MORNINGSIDE FARMERS MARKET
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by Ulysses
9M ago
Harlem Bespoke: The Morningside Park Farmers Market has been around for over 10 years now and is bigger and better these days. This outdoor pop-up on West 110th Street and Manhattan Avenue runs every Saturday from 9:00AM to 2:00PM and a list of visiting merchant and more updates can be found on the official website: LINK HarlemBespoke.com 2023 ..read more
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REMEMBER: HOME OF THE FATHER OF HARLEM
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by Ulysses
9M ago
Harlem Bespoke:  Who is known as the Father of Harlem and where did he live?  Below is one our original post mentioning the Home of Phillip A. Payton Jr. which still stands today in Central Harlem. Number 13 West 131st Street just west of Fifth Avenue has windows that look like a Jack O'Lantern face but is also notable for being the former home of the Father of Harlem.   Phillip A. Payton Jr. founded the Afro-American Realty Company during a time when the financial market crashed in 1904 and would bring the black community uptown to brand new homes that were built in a spe ..read more
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DWELL: 465 WEST 144TH STREET TOWNHOUSE
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by Ulysses
9M ago
Harlem Bespoke:   After selling for $1.9 million back in 2020 during the start of the pandemic, Number 465 West 144th Street in Hamilton Heights is now back on the market for a cool $2.5 $2.1 million.  So what is different this time around? The listing mentions that everything is in a multi-family layout and a Certificate of No Harrassment in place so an SRO situation might have been the case in the past.  With that said, that would mean the next owner can start with changing the layout right away and there lies the new value of the apparent fixer-upper.  As previousl ..read more
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GOATS RETURN TO RIVERSIDE PARK 2023
Harlem Bespoke
by Ulysses
9M ago
Harlem Bespoke: The goats are back at Riverside Park and West 120th Street on the upper level! Did you know the word Gotham basically means goat town? Harlem was known as a village full of goats before the brownstones arrived by the end of the 1800s and now everything has gone full circle. Check out these guys for free all summer starting Wednesday, July 7th at 11:00AM when the official Running of the Goats welcomes the seasonal guests to Riverside Park at Morningside Heights just a couple of blocks south of Grant's Tomb.  There are five all together helping to eat up all the we ..read more
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BESPOKE KIDS: THE BILLION OYSTER PROJECT
Harlem Bespoke
by Ulysses
9M ago
Saturday, July 8th, 12:00PM–2:00PM,  The Billion Oyster Project at The Baylander, West Harlem Piers on the Hudson at 125th Street.  Come see the Billion Oyster Project on the Baylander’s Jungle Deck. Learn about the project's latest effort to restore our harbor!  Oysters are the green way to filter New York waterways and used to be one of the most abundant species with the local ecosystem.  The Billion Oyster Project has been successfully re-introducing the bivalves back in the greater New York Harbor and has a goal of one billion oysters in the waters by the time 203 ..read more
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HARLEM BESPOKE SUBSCRIPTION EMAIL UPDATE
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by Ulysses
9M ago
Harlem Bespoke:  Google has cancelled the previous email subscription format so we have switched to follow.it for the newsletter.  All current subscribers will be getting an updated feed confirmation link via email this week but if you want to switch right away to follow.it then just type in your email address below and press the subscribe button.   BESPOKE BY EMAIL Subscribe ..read more
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