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By Bretton Love A shower caddy is a great way to organize your bathroom and keep all of your essential toiletries in one place. With its spacious compartments, it can easily store shampoo bottles, soap bars, sponges, and razors. It helps to keep your bathroom from becoming cluttered and makes it easier to find what…
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MANHATTAN
City Council – District 9
Inez Dickens – 25.3%
Yusef Salaam – 50.7%
Al Taylor – 14.5%
BRONX
City Council – District 12
Aisha Hernandez Ahmed – 5.4%
Pamela Hamilton-Johnson – 12.1%
Kevin Riley – 82.5%
City Council – District 14
Rachel Bradshaw – 23.5%
Pierina Ana Sanchez – 76.5%
District Attorney
Darcel Clark – 73.1%
Tess Cohen – 26.9%
BROOKLYN
City Council – District 41
Reginald Bowman – 5%
Isis McIntosh Green – 29.7%
Darlene Mealy – 61.9%
City Council – District 42
Chris Banks – 51%
Charles Barron – 43.6%
Jamilah Rose – 5.4%
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BY Led Black (@Led_Black)
It’s Time To Get Your Vote On…
That’s right people; today is the day we make our voice heard.
You have no reason not to vote and a plethora of reasons to vote.
Too many people have suffered, fought and lost their lives for you to worship at the alter of apathy.
At this very moment, their are well-funded operations working around the clock to curtail, circumvent and cancel your voting rights.
The question becomes, are you willing to let them.
Remember, not voting is also a political act.
You are either at the table or you are on the menu.
With that said, head to the polls and participate in your democracy!
Democracy is a participatory thing – you either use it or lose it.
Polls are open until 9PM today.
You can use whosontheballot.org to find out everything thing you need to know about NYC elections.
It’s time to make your choice. Vote.
Keep in mind that Rank Choice Voting is in effect for this election. Click here for a cool video on Rank Choice Voting or click below for more info.
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In Charged, four Asian American women artists entice the viewer with intricately refined craftsmanship charged with sociopolitical and cross-cultural significance. Commenting on mass shootings rooted in US gun culture, living the Korean diaspora experience, the racist legacy of colonialism, and racial injustice against Asians, among other issues, the exhibition demonstrates disciplined art practice through a…
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The Amsterdam News’ Blacklight investigative unit is now the Amsterdam News’ award-winning Blacklight investigative unit. The New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) crowned the desk’s “SUFFER THE CHILDREN: COVID’s impact on New York’s youngest” story with this year’s Ed Bradley Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting.
Reported by freelance writer Taayoo Murray, the piece explores the lives of Black youth after the loss of a parent to COVID-19. Beyond the tragedies they endured, the youngsters also shared the difficulties of navigating the limited social services available to them and solutions that actually exist to address their grief and allow them to heal. The full story can be read here.
The story is personal for Murray—it came to her after her stepbrother lost his wife earlier in the pandemic. She left behind three children.
“I didn’t want to interview my own family for the piece,” said Murray. “I don’t think that they would have opened up to me the way other families would have.”
Along came the Fletcher family, whose patriarch Trevor also died at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. They became central figures in Murray’s piece as the children navigated school, home, and the general difficulties of growing up after losing their father. Murray soon got in contact with Amsterdam News investigative editor Damaso Reyes and the newspaper published the piece last September. Murray is still battling with a bout of imposter syndrome.
“[Reyes] emailed me asking permission to submit the articles [for award] entry,” said Murray. “I was like, ‘Sure, go right ahead.’ I didn’t know anything about the award. I didn’t know what the criteria were. What’s the worst thing that can happen? [Then Reyes] emailed me to say that the article was a finalist.
“We moved to a different level of the competition, so that’s good. Okay—if somebody reviewed the piece and thought it was good enough, I’m happy about that.”
It wasn’t until Murray reviewed the other amazing work also in the running for the award that she fully understood her piece was “really something worthy.”
Her award-winning career as a freelance health writer started unconventionally as a result of reading up on a liver transplant her brother was undergoing in 2018. Back in high school, Murray didn’t even know there were paid writing gigs. The Jamaican-born New Yorker discovered she was “a bit of a nerd” through researching the procedure and became engrossed in the medical world enough to write on it. The work allowed her to explain “hard science” concepts to her family that otherwise seemed unapproachable.
Murray and Reyes were honored at the NYABJ’s Black Excellence Awards, which were handed out during the organization’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Gala this past Tuesday, June 20.
Past nominees include Joy Reid and Nikole Hannah-Jones. The distinction’s namesake, the late broadcaster Ed Bradley, was no stranger to journalism awards himself, bringing home a Peabody Award and countless Emmys in his illustrious career.
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Harlem Bespoke: Uptown gardeners looking for blooming trees or larger plants should check out Urban Garden Center on Park Avenue by 116th Street since they will make a deliver. Harlem has a lot of brownstone green spaces or terraces on newer buildings and this is the time of year to get more dramatic gardening started. Get more details on the official website: UrbanGardenNyc.com
Harlem Bespoke: Number 210 West 122nd Street was up for sale before the pandemic with the asking set at $3.7 million and now the listing returned to the market for the spring 2023 season for an upgraded $4.9 million.
As previously mentioned, the location just west of 7th Avenue is ideal because of the proximity to the express trains on 125th Street but potential buyers might want to check out the Certificate of Occupancy since this townhouse was previously an SRO. Apparently everything now is currently set up as a Bed and Breakfast and the listing mentions as much. Everything looks to be in good condition within but there are quite a few bathrooms located on each of the floors because of the hotel situation. More details on Streeteasy: LINK
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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!
There have been a couple of stories on the old Silver Rail Bar just below 125th Street on 8th Avenue in the past but Bespoke readers are the ones who have revealed the forgotten LGBT history at some of Harlem’s establishments in 70s, 80s or 90s. This block would eventually be demolished for the big glassy Harlem USA complex but before that happened, 2321 8th Avenue became Andre’s which appears to haves been the spot for the gay community to socialize.
Andre’s filled-in where the Silver Rail left off and did very well. Another gay bar on 125th St. was known as Jay’s and lets not forget the Big Apple. All three catered to a particular sub-set within the black gay culture of Harlem. The Big Apple catered to older, middle-aged gay black men while Andre’s was known for its demimonde and Jays catered to everyone else including hustlers.
We visited each site this week to see what they look like in 2016. Anyone with more details on the actual dates they were open should comment accordingly or contact: harlembespoke@gmail.com
The archival photo from the Museum of the city of New York shows the west side of 8th Avenue between 124th and 125th Street back in 1948 and the Silver Rail Bar can be seen at center. Apparently everything was intact in the 90s but by 1996, the $56 million Harlem USA mall complex would cause the demise of the old buildings on the block. Silver Rail was replaced by Andre’s which was one of the notable LGBT spots in the neighborhood but would eventually transformed into Showman’s Jazz bar. Showman’s moved a little further west on 125th Street and is still around today but we have yet to find a photo of Andre’s at its height of popularity. Can anyone advise on the actually timeline?
The other bar mentioned was Jay’s located at 307 West 125th Street which was literally half a block up on the north side of 125th Street. This old tenement building located just west of FDB has a dollar store and a braid shop upstairs today and sits next to the Bingo hall where quite a few Vogue balls were held in the 80s and 90s. There is not much about Jay’s to be found online so any information on the time period that the establishment was open would greatly be appreciated.
The Big Apple jazz club debuted at 2300 7th Avenue back in 1934 and the facade would remain at corner of 135th Street until demolition in 2006 to make way for a Popeye’s. Apparently the club was open for half a century but nobody really has a date on when it shuttered. Based on past blog comments in regards to recent gay bars in Harlem, the Big Apple might have been one of the establishments open up until 80s or even the 90s.