Flower Shops for Valentine’s Day
With a tsunami of advertising since right after Christmas, we are right down to it – the week of Valentine’s
Visiting a Few of our Uptown Museums during Black History Month
New York….New York. What a City we live in, and what better way to explore it then a trip
Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park: A Watercolor Tour
[Update 8/28/13: The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association and the New York City Department of Parks &
A Little Stretch of West 11th Street in Greenwich Village
Starting out at 5th Avenue and heading west on 11th Street toward Greenwich Village, we can’t walk by #18
Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem to Be Resurrected
Henry Minton was a tenor saxophonist who opened Minton’s Playhouse in 1938. The house band had names like Thelonious
On the Watercolor Trail to Morningside Heights
Broadway is the oldest North-South thoroughfare in our City. Like many of our streets, it originated as an Indian trail
Harlem’s Best Bakeries
What do you think of when you think of Harlem? Jazz…Soul Food? What about bakeries? So many, in fact,
Harlem’s Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Watercolor
Also known as The Gateway to Harlem, Frederick Douglass Boulevard has been in the news a lot lately. Over the
Harlem’s Little Africa Marketplace
On 116th Street, just east of Lenox Avenue, you will find one of my favorite markets – The Malcolm Shabazz Harlem
Harlem & All That Jazz
Harlem’s history is filled with music, dance and theatre from the days of The Savoy Ballroom and The Cotton
The Treasures of MacDougal Street
There is so much history to be found on MacDougal Street, starting at the north end near Washington Square Park
Hallelujah – The Gospel According to Harlem
The diversity in our great City seems to know no bounds, and nowhere is this more evident then the way