SEPTEMBER 2014 NEWSLETTER

East Harlem Preservation Annual Fundraiser

Please join the East Harlem Preservation team as we celebrate our 9th year of service! Since 2005, our volunteers have worked tirelessly to preserve and promote the neighborhood’s history and culture - and to keep you informed about important issues and upcoming events. Let’s continue to CREATE, not eliminate, COMMUNITY. 

Plans for the fundraiser include a reading by local poet Jesus Papoleto Melendez, music, and an open-mic segment. There will also be delicious food from local restaurants, a cash bar, and a silent auction. Raffle prizes include East Harlem Cafe t-shirts, $50 gift cards to Lucky 21 boutique and copies of El Museo del Barrio's book, Caribbean Art at the Crossroads of the World.  RSVP today!

East Harlem Preservation Fundraiser!
Thursday, September 18 | 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
East Harlem Cafe
1651 Lexington Avenue @ East 104th Street
Raffle Prizes * Cash Bar * Silent Auction * Open Mic
 

PLAYING WITH FIRE:
Political Interventions, Dissident Acts & Mischievous Actions

September 4, 2014 - January 3, 2015
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue @ 104th Street

 

Literacy for Incarcerated Teens Librería Project!

Saturday, September 6, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
La Casa Azul Bookstore
143 East 103rd Street 

Join us as Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (LIT) partners with La Casa Azul Bookstore to create a bilingual library at the Children’s Home of Kingston where a number of children are being detained as they await immigration proceedings.  The Librería will be LIT’s first fully bilingual library collection.  Books have been carefully curated by La Casa Azul Bookstore and features an amazing array of works in Spanish and English, from moving young adult novels to colorful children’s books intended to assist in English-language learning.  Join us for food, music and good company as authors who work closely with LIT and volunteers alike discuss the wonder and power detained youth derive from books.  Literacy lovers will have the opportunity of contributing to the Librería and LIT’s efforts by purchasing books for the collection at La Casa Azul Bookstore from September 6th through September 20th. See you then!
 

 

Film screening: Women’s Stories from Working Hands

Saturday, September 13, 6:00pm - 8:00pm 
La Casa Azul Bookstore
143 East 103rd Street 

 

Join us as Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (LIT) partners with La Casa Azul Bookstore to create a bilingual library at the Children’s Home of Kingston where a number of children are being detained as they await immigration proceedings.  The Librería will be LIT’s first fully bilingual library collection.  Books have been carefully curated by La Casa Azul Bookstore and features an amazing array of works in Spanish and English, from moving young adult novels to colorful children’s books intended to assist in English-language learning.  Join us for food, music and good company as authors who work closely with LIT and volunteers alike discuss the wonder and power detained youth derive from books.  Literacy lovers will have the opportunity of contributing to the Librería and LIT’s efforts by purchasing books for the collection at La Casa Azul Bookstore from September 6th through September 20th. See you then!
 

Wednesday, September 17 at 6:30 pm
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue @ 104th Street

 

SUPER SABADO: Celebrate Fall!

September 20 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue @ 104th Street
 

 

Ordinary People: Alexis De Veaux

Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 6:30 p.m.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 
515 Malcolm X Boulevard

Come hear the extraordinary poet and biographer Alexis De Veaux read from her new work of fiction, Yabo. After the reading, De Veaux will be joined with special guests to discuss her work and her impact in the literary, women's, and black lesbian cultures.  For all free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. All registered seats are released 15 to 30 minutes before start time, so we recommend that you arrive early.
 

Wanted: Youth interested in media, journalism, photography, and art

So you want to be a journalist, a writer, a filmmaker, a photographer or are simply curious about getting together with like-minded people to explore these forms of expression, then you must sign up for the FREE Art for Change storytelling workshop.  

This is a hand-on workshop specifically created (with love) for young people living in East Harlem.  You will learn from some of the most passionate and accomplished cultural activists.  They will mentor you as you learn to conduct "real" interviews of politicians, activists and leaders in your community.  You will learn about photography and filmmaking, skills that will always remain with you.   

AND IF YOU COMPLETE THE PROGRAM SUCCESSFULLY, you will have the necessary tools to start your own journey as a storyteller, media maker and cultural activist.   But, as if these tools were not enough, you will receive compelling college recommendations and make new friends and mentors who really care about you.   

Interested? Email, call or text!  SPACE IS LIMITED SO CALL NOW!

Kathleen Sowle
kathleen@artforchange.org
914-319-846

 

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

Local Politics

• Despite differences, Melissa Mark-Viverito willing to campaign for Gov. Cuomo
• Melissa Mark-Viverito tours 'heartbreaking' children's immigration docket
• City Council Moves To Seize Illegal 'Charity' Clothing Bins
• Basil Paterson - Remembering the pioneering powerhouse
• Hindsight on Redistricting: Rangel Won. Did Voters?
• Rep. Charles Rangel received PAC funds without a treasurer, violating election rules

Affordable Housing / NYCHA

• NYCHA Residents Praise De Blasio's Scaffold Plan But Say More Work Needed
• Audit Blames New York State Program for Delays in Affordable-Housing Projects
• Bill de Blasio Heckled While Touting NYCHA Safety Gains
• Scaffolding Comes Down in East Harlem After 4 Years
• With federal funding at 'starvation levels,' the New York City Housing Authority needs the city and state to step in to stem the agency's recent decline
• Hundreds rally in Harlem to demand housing developers designate more new units as affordable
• Landlords push back on affordable-housing plan
• Unions, Activists Align on Affordable Housing
• Airbnb’s threat to affordable housing

East River Plaza / Pleasant Avenue

• Letter to Community Leaders - N.E.R.V.E.
• El Barrio Unite Manifesto & Petition (English)
• El Barrio Unite Manifesto & Petition (Spanish)
• Melissa’s tall tale
• East Harlem Getting Taste Of Miami Lifestyle With Pink/Blue Colored Condo
• East Harlem building plans cause community controversy
• Residents outraged over balcony color controversy at proposed East Harlem apartment building
• East Harlem luxury tower plan is becoming Bill de Blasio's affordable housing test
• Locals Raise Concerns Over East River Plaza Residential Towers
• Here Are the Three Towers That May Top the East River Plaza

Business

• Outdoor Bar series #2 Prime One16
• Business Owners Near Site of East Harlem Explosion Can Take Out Loans to Help Recovery
• State establishes $425,000 loan fund for businesses hurt by East Harlem Explosion
• La Marqueta Hosts Open House for Vendors Looking for Retail Space
• The Best Restaurant in New York Is: El Museo del Barrio
• How a Part-Time Pay Penalty Hits Working Mothers
• East Harlem locals reminisce as leaders look to La Marqueta’s future
• Frankie Gio boycotting iconic Rao’s restaurant
• Bronx officials push FreshDirect to pay fair wages
• Bed Bath & Beyond finds home at 5 West 125th Street

Arts & Culture

• Inside NYC’s hidden museum of trash
• East Harlem Firehouse to Become New Cultural Center
• Where Are All the Female Statues in Central Park?
• Summer Salute to Charlie Parker
• Marcus Garvey Basketball League Sound Permit Restored for Final Tournament
• Knowing Your History to Change Your Reality: Interview with Dr. Marta Moreno Vega
• Young Lords Way
• Harlem Week event marks its 40th anniversary
• Again, Museum for African Art Scales Down Building Project
• Parishioners will hoist nearly 4-ton wooden tower during Dance of the Giglio Festival
• A street sign co-naming a Harlem block for iconic writer James Baldwin will not be installed for several months
• Emmy-winning anchor highlights Harlem in new TV show
• Honoring James Baldwin’s 90th Birthday in Harlem
• Artist Renders East River Flows in Light Graffiti

Health / Environment

• FDNY Commish Orders Massive Cleanup, Training Changes as MRSA Cases Rise
• Uptown group makes healthy living easy for East Harlemites, city seeks to partner-up
• City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Tweets HPV Low Grade Dysplasia, ‘#Whew’
• Autism Center That Offers Vocational Training Set to Open in East Harlem
• Getting tested early and often will help detect HPV: Melissa Mark-Viverito
• All about high-risk HPV, the virus that has infected Melissa Mark-Viverito
• Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito reveals on Twitter she has ‘high risk HPV’
• MRSA Superbug Cases Previously Found in Fire Academy Class, FDNY Says
• Student Firefighters Contract MRSA Superbug at FDNY Academy on Randall's Island
• Kids Most at Risk as Study Links Parks Dept. Pesticide to Cancer: Experts
• Mystery patient in New York City's Ebola scare recounts 72 anxious hours of being quarantined at hospital
• Foot Doctor School Evacuated After Deodorant Spreads Through Ventilation
• Man in New York DOES NOT have Ebola, Mount Sinai Hospital announces
• Sierra Leoneans Gather on Randall's Island to Shed Light on Ebola Crisis

Crime / Public Safety

• NY's Electric Zoo Music Fest Shut Down by Storms 
• Serial bank robber who stole $32,000 from a dozen New York banks loses it ALL at the roulette table
• Islan Nettles' Family and Friends Still Seek Justice 1 Year After Murder
• Autistic teen missing for 2 weeks found safe in East Harlem
• Man, 29, shot dead in Manhattan housing development
• Cabbie Arrested After Dragging Cyclist 80 Feet in Deadly Crash, NYPD Says
• Park Avenue In East Harlem Is A Cyclist Corridor Of Death
• East Harlem ‘Kevorkian’ expected to plead guilty in exchange for 12 years in prison
• 2 Killed and Dozen Are Injured as Weekend Shootings Plague NYC
• 3 wounded in shootings at barbecue in East Harlem
• A Year After Drug Deaths, the Electric Zoo Music Festival Tries Again
• Man arrested in fatal East Harlem stabbing in park
• Nine injured as fire tears through East Harlem apartment building where stairwell collapsed months earlier
• Pit Bull That Killed Bentley the Maltese Sought by Dog Run Organizers
• The Five Borough Bicycle Club is on a mission to make upper Manhattan more bicycle-friendly
• Harlem Apartment Fire Sends Person to Hospital, FDNY Says
• East 106th Street Redesign Cuts Traffic Lanes, Adds Dedicated Bike Path

Civil Rights/Legal

• Activists Create Signs to Protest Harlem Church's Homophobic Messages
• Harlemite launches #HarlemLove campaign against homophobic pastor and his church
• Protesta y solidaridad en manifestaciones por justicia de Brown y Garner
• Remember The Young Lords? Neither Does The NYPD, Which Is Odd...
• Police Files on Radicals Are at Center of a Lawsuit
• College student says cops beat him for no reason, intends to sue NYPD
• Eric Garner's Widow Calls For Justice After Husband's Death Ruled Homicide
• At Harlem Rally, Demanding Justice in Chokehold Case

Other Headlines

• Gentrifiers, When Do You Call 311?
• Social Issues Trailblazer Vito Marcantonio Honored at Woodlawn Cemetery
• East Harlem Nurses, on 24-Hour Strike, Demand Staffing Relief
• Malcolm X's former Harlem mosque that once preached black separatism now promotes interfaith ties
• From Rikers to Barclays, Embattled East Harlem Boxer Gets Title Shot 
• Youth Marines Find New Home in East Harlem
• McEnroe’s ‘scam’ charity for elite players, not poor kids

East Harlem Preservation, Inc. is a volunteer advocacy organization founded in 2005 to promote and preserve the neighborhood's culture and history. We are a lean, green collective that runs on 100% volunteer power! It is only with support from neighbors such as you, that we are able to provide ad-free, community-driven content with no government or corporate funding! Our website, Facebook and Twitter streams, and ongoing email alerts keep you informed about upcoming cultural events, breaking news reports, and important civic and legislative issues. We are a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization; contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. Secure donations can be submitted online or by mail. Feel free to drop us a line for details, or if you’d prefer to volunteer your talent or time. Please also be sure to also keep us informed abut your own activities as we continue to highlight the good work that we all do for our community! © Copyright 2014.