Subject: Harlem

• Little Buzz in Harlem

  September 13, 2005

• Council Cliffhanger

  September 14, 2005

• New Development Battle in Harlem

  December 23, 2005

• James Brown's Last Night at the Apollo

  December 28, 2006

• Harlemites to Join Hands to Protest Rezoning

  April 11, 2008

• Harlem Vendors Protest 125th Street Rezoning

  April 15, 2008

• Harlem Residents Blast 125th Street Rezoning 'Sellout'

  May 1, 2008

• The Kalahari in Harlem is Open For Business

  May 6, 2008

• Be On the Lookout: Individual In Possession of Headless Black Doll

  July 24, 2008

• Food Fight: Harlem Forum Debates Supermarket Sweeps

  September 25, 2008

• Former Home of "Academic Racist" Sponsors Harlem DNA Lab

  September 25, 2008

• Multiple Muggings in Harlem; Cop Says, Give Up, Move Out

  October 7, 2008

• Animal Collective Leaks Merriweather Post Pavilion To Lucky Fans

  October 29, 2008

• They Call Me PRESIDENT Obama!

  November 4, 2008

• E. Harlem Tenants Take Down Limey Gentrifiers

  November 18, 2008

• Film of Popular YA Novel Push to Premiere at Sundance

  Back when we were tutoring kids in Brooklyn, the gritty urban novel Push by Harlem teacher and poet Sapphire was in a surprising number of bookbags. We learned that the book about an abused teenager was considered a good way to introduce city youths to literature, and a sufficiently popular reading assignment to warrant online paper-writing guides. We now learn that a movie version of the book will debut this week at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is directed by Lee Daniels and stars newc

  January 13, 2009

• Inauguration Fever: Catch It!

  It's less than a week away! Get pumped! Trinity Church will execute a rare three-and-a-half hour "full peal" of its bells on January 20. The Queens Public Library will have it on a big screen; "seating limited." (Free screenings as well at Barbes, BAM, and other Brooklyn locations.) Dunkin' Donuts will issue a commemorative "Stars & Stripes" donut. Harlem has a full dance card, including a "Rumba Pa' Obama" at East Harlem's FB Lounge. And on the Upper East, an Obamacentric menu at Southern Hospi

  January 14, 2009

• Push Wins 3 Prizes at Sundance

  Last week we mentioned that the novel Push, written by Harlem schoolteacher and poet Sapphire and a popular multi-cultural reading assignment hereabouts, had been made into a film and was debuting at the Sundance Festival. Last night the film won the Festival's jury and audience awards in the U.S. drama category, and a special jury prize for Mo'Nique as the teen heroine's abusive mother. The New York Post's Lou Lumenick described Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire as "roughly a Harlem version o

  January 25, 2009

• Barrett: The Politics On Display At Bill Tatum's Funeral

  Funerals can be about politics, especially when the deceased is as influential as Bill Tatum was. The longtime owner of the Amsterdam News drew a crowd of hundreds at Riverside Church last Friday, and most of the speakers were politicians, including the minister who presided, Rev. Al Sharpton.None of the pols was as eloquent as Elinor Tatum, Bill's daughter, who has been editing the only citywide black paper for a decade already, and will now assume total control of it. All of Bill Tatum's warmt

  March 10, 2009

• Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Chicken Wings

  (click to see actual size!) As far as Harlem is concerned you can take those Buffalo wings and -- oh! never mind. Because Harlem prefers hers lightly dusted with flour and deep fried, so the skin turns out crisp, and there are no gobs of greasy starch trailing behind these airborne appendages. Dappled in sunlight, the above came from A Taste of Seafood, far enough east on 125th Street to not be hectored by the long tentacles of national franchises that have smothered West 125th Street l

  March 17, 2009

• HOOD LIFE

  July 29, 2008

• Lawsuits and the Langston Hughes House

  A Harlem cultural touchstone, like so many others, closes off its past

  August 27, 2008

• Doggie Divas

  Harlem gets its first luxury pet shop; Liza celebrates gay pet pride

  June 27, 2006

• Rack Focus

  September 13, 2005

• Film at 11

  January 2, 2007

• Their Shocking New Neighbor

  June 26, 2007

• His Dream Deferred

  July 24, 2007

• COOL CAT

  November 5, 2008

• Will Rihanna Go Hollywood?

  Uptown Saturday nights are more fabulous all the time. Meanwhile, back at the Tonys . . .

  June 17, 2008

• Zoned Out

  December 4, 2007

• Harlem Globetrotters

  December 26, 2006

• Harlem's School Choice

  April 8, 2009

• BAROQUE BASH

  Celebrating composers' anniversaries

  April 8, 2009

• Interview: Albert and Philip Maysles on Grey Gardens, the HBO Adaptation, and the One-Year Anniversary of Maysles Cinema

  "I judge what we did in the film, what's done in the musical and in the fiction film--I judge all of this in terms of whether the two women would like each one of these things, and I think they would in each case." Iconic 82-year-old filmmaker Albert Maysles is having a good month. HBO's fictional adaptation of the Maysles brothers' 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens--starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as the original Grey ladies, Big and Little Edith Beale--premiered this past Saturday. A

  April 23, 2009

• Cops Hand Out Cards with Stop-and-Frisks

  New York cops are accustomed to the stop-and-frisk, a casual maneuver in which they detain a citizen on the street, pat him down, and tell him to getouttahere or arrest him. Now, in a pilot program affecting Harlem, the South Bronx and East New York, they also issue their victims a palm card (in seven languages!) explaining to victims why they have been thus manhandled. They started doing this on April 23, but no reporters were hanging around Harlem, the South Bronx and East New York enough to

  May 1, 2009

• What to 'B' to Under D Tree

  Photo borrowed from Harlem VintageEvery week or so in 'What to B When You BYOB' we ask a local wine shop to recommend a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, we talk to the folks at Harlem Vintage about what to bring to nearby Jamaican joint Under D Tree. Harlem Vintage organizes its wine by varietal as opposed to by region, in order to help demystify the wine selection process. Domaine des 2 Anes 2008, Corbieres Rose, France ($13.99) "This is a

  May 12, 2009

• Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers

  May 13, 2009

• Clinton's Help for Harlem Restaurants: "Fire Your Employees"

  Former president Bill Clinton wants to give a hand to Harlem eateries. In October, the Post reported that Clinton's foundation was announcing plans to "strengthen restaurants" in the neighborhood through the Harlem Restaurant Program. Nine months later, only a small number of restaurant owners, about a dozen, are taking the help.Karl Franz Williams, a tall, dread-locked Yale grad and owner of Society Cafe, a popular place at 114th Street and Fredrick Douglas Blvd, remembers how excited he and ot

  June 19, 2009

• Rents Drop to New Lows, Which Are Still Ridiculously High

  The real estate market crash newspapers believe we should be upset about -- said papers apparently believing we all have a million bucks we'd like to invest in house-flipping schemes -- proceeds apace. Today the Wall Street Journal tells us the whole country is seeing a 22-year-high in vacancy rates, and we were encouraged to see that New York City had in consequence the largest rent decline in the nation -- until we learned that the 5.8 percent drop brings us to an average of $2,680. That's mo

  July 8, 2009

• Marcus Roberts Trio

  July 22, 2009

• Clip Job: Harlem Riots, 1964

  Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJuly 23, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 40'Tear Down the Ghetto'The weekend riots in Harlem produced no discernible "white backlash" in Greenwich Village. Members of the Village Independent Democrats managed to raise more than $1000 on street corners and in front of supermarkets to aid the Mississippi registration project. Some Villagers expressed anger at recent events, but most of it was directed at violence in the subways. Some suggested that money be

  July 24, 2009

• How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B? Barbecued Pork Rib Sandwich, With Fries

  ​I long ago learned that Southern cooks will make a sandwich out of just about anything. In New Orleans, the original po' boy was a baguette loaded down with french fries, and here in Harlem and Bed-Stuy, you can still get a sandwich made of sliced bread with pork ribs or pieces of bony chicken as the filling. How do you eat the sandwich, then, you ask?

  July 27, 2009

• The Studio Museum's 'We Come With the Beautiful Things'; Dan Wynn at Farmani Gallery

  July 28, 2009

• On the Stump: Citywide Candidates' Latest Doings

  ​Damn, August already -- and we haven't paid our rent or looked at the local candidates much besides the mayoral prospects. Here's a fast look at what contenders for three big spots have been up to lately: Manhattan D.A.: Richard Aborn appeared with former NYPD Commissioner and current LAPD Chief Bill Bratton at City Hall today to unveil a "detailed proposal to improve the use of technology in the DA's office and increase accountability and oversight analysis" called PreventStat (like Com

  August 4, 2009

• A Handbook, Not a Handout: Bill Clinton's Zagat Guide to Harlem

  ​Evidently, Bill Clinton isn't done trying to improve things for business owners of Harlem without handing them any (often badly needed) cash. The Clinton Foundation and Zagat Survey have rolled out a new guide to Harlem as part of the Clinton Economic Opportunity Initiative (CEO). According to the foundation's web site, the guide points to more than 300 Harlem restaurants, nightspots, and stores. "We are pleased to partner with Zagat to showcase all there is to see and do, and hope visit

  August 12, 2009

• 4 Guys Try to Rob Harlem Shop, Get Shotgunned Instead; 2 Die

  ​Four men tried to rob the Kaplan Brothers Blue Flame Corporation in Harlem today, and the owner of the business dispatched them with a shotgun. Two went to the afterlife, one hobbled several blocks to St. Luke's Hospital, and the last just wandered off bleeding, but was apprehended. A witness tells the Times, "bystanders appeared to be sympathetic to the business owner," which doesn't surprise us one little bit. The latest NYPD figures for Harlem's 28th Precinct shows serious crime in th

  August 13, 2009

• Good Morning, Big L

  via​Big L's Harlem mural got a touch-up and a rededication on Sunday, when family, friends, and fans came together at 140th and Lenox Ave to remember Lamont Coleman and catch a preview of a new documentary about the slain rapper, entitled Street Struck: The Big L Story.

  September 1, 2009

• 'James P. Johnson's Last Rent Party!'

  September 29, 2009

• Weekend Special: Some of Our Favorite Restaurant Names, Part 2

  ​ Mookie's No Pork On My Fork, Harlem While traveling around town and around the country, the Fork in the Road staff always keeps its eyes peeled for interesting and amusing restaurant names. Back in April, we published a collection that included Young City Fish Balls (Manhattan Chinatown), Famous Lunch (Troy, NY), and Anil Roti (Richmond Hill, Queens). See it here Here's our latest collection.

  October 10, 2009

• The City Moves Forward With Plans for East Harlem Kitchen Incubator

  The city has put together some innovative plans to help people grapple with the recession in recent months -and at least one of them will please foodies all over the city. By the year's end, the city's Economic Development Corporation says it will outfit a 4,000 square-foot commercial kitchen in East Harlem to become a 'kitchen incubator' for aspiring restaurateurs.

  November 2, 2009