Harlem Bespoke: The renowned Amateur Night at the Apollo returns in 2023 after almost almost a two years absence and tickets are now on sale for November.
Wednesday, May 10th 7:30PM, Amateur Night live at the Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue. Local events have been selling out way in advance recently so those who want to get a head start on good seats should do so sooner than later. More details and advance online tickets at the official Apollo site: LINK
Harlem Bespoke: Everyone is waiting for the new wine bar to open at the storefront at 420 Lenox Avenue for years but now it appears that the entire building is up for sale since the historic location is now up on the market for $4.2 million$3.7 million. This mix-used address has 3 occupied apartments in various layouts and two commercial spaces which includes the popular Pompette wine shop around the corner on West 131st Street which is behind the aforementioned corner wine bar. If the building sells in the coming months, the wine bar opening will probably be not affected if all the leasing contracts have been secured. Check out the more current photo of the wine bar in our recent post: LINK
The best of Off-Broadway talent from Harlem to who knows where gathered at NYU Skirball for the highly anticipated 2023 Lucille Lortel Awards. The ceremony was hosted by a bevy of stars including Kevin Cahoon, D’Arcy Carden, Crystal Lucas-Perry, Bonnie Milligan, Arian Moayed, and Tamara Tunie. The Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional…
NEW YORK (AP) — A top official representing a suburban New York county where New York City’s mayor wants to send asylum seekers vowed to fight the plan Monday by enforcing the state of emergency he declared over the weekend.
Rockland County Executive Ed Day, a Republican, planned a news conference to discuss New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to bus up to 300 single adult male migrants to hotels in Rockland and Orange counties.
Adams, a Democrat, announced the plan Friday to bus migrants to the two counties north of the city on a voluntary basis. He said the program would help the city handle the more than 37,500 asylum seekers already in the city’s care.
Adams said the migrants would be provided with meals and other services during their time in the hotels.
Day responded by announcing a state of emergency Saturday.
The county executive said Rockland County already has an “extreme” housing crisis and sending busloads of migrants “will only compound that issue tenfold while straining support systems that are already at a breaking point.”
Day said in a news release that the state of emergency will prohibit other municipalities from bringing people to Rockland County and will prohibit hotels and motels from housing immigrants without a license.
He said the state of emergency will remain in effect for at least 30 days and include fines of $2,000 per migrant for the hotels and for any municipality that sends migrants to Rockland.
Day planned a news conference later Monday with other opponents of Adams’ plan including U.S. Rep. Michael Lawler, a Republican.
Asked for a comment on Day’s state of emergency, a spokesperson for Adams referred to the mayor’s Friday news release about the migrant plan.
Harlem Bespoke: The largest black-owned jazz club in Harlem was probably Small’s Paradise at the corner of West 135th Street at 7th Avenue and we recently found a 1940 government photo of the legendary address. Most of the speakeasies nearby were in modest brownstone storefronts a couple of blocks south or big white-owned establishments like the Cotton Club on West 142nd Street and Lenox. Out of all the large club buildings of the Harlem Renaissance years, only the Small’s now stand and has pretty much been restored after much community activism a few decades ago. There is school on the added upper levels now and and IHOP now resides as the anchor commercial tenant. More on Small’s Paradise can be found in our past post: LINK
