15th Annual ImageNation Outdoors Festival – Last 3 Events
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Celebrating Harlem since 2006
- Aug 13, 2017
2017 – 2018 Essential Uptown Guide
The 2017-2018 Essential Harlem, Washington Heights & Inwood Guides are here! Snag your copy before their gone from NiLu, local news racks or CLICK HERE to view online. Special thanks to our partners: #cultural #guide #essential #event #Harlem #local #Uptown #culture #NewYork #experienceharlem #experience #NYC #shoplocal #harlemnyc #harlemites #NY
- Aug 3, 2017
What’s Happening at Row House- August 2017
Wednesdays get a bad rep.
We’re making Hump Day a little more bearable with 50% off all wines by the bottle. #cultural #guide #essential #event #Harlem #local #Uptown #culture #NewYork #experienceharlem #experience #NYC #shoplocal #harlemnyc #harlemites #NY
- Aug 1, 2017
Whole Foods Harlem: Beginning of the End?
By Miles Marshall Lewis This Friday, Whole Foods Harlem turns two weeks old. Rather than rush to a snap judgment over the upscale supermarket’s arrival uptown, I chose to let its presence sink in for a bit before deciding how I really felt. Unpacking my thoughts like a recyclable grocery bag isn’t so easy, because the reality of a 125th Street Whole Foods is complicated. Some feel it’s a doomsday harbinger of things to come, re: rising property rates and further gentrificatio
- Jul 18, 2017
Jazzmobile presents Summerfest
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- Jul 17, 2017
13th – Annual Soul Train Tribute* August 12th, Marcus Garvey Park
The Soul Train Tribute — arguably the hottest Jam in the park for six consecutive years — celebrates the soundtrack of American social movements with a tribute to Freedom Songs from the Soul Train Era! With Music spun by DJ Stormin’ Norman of Sundae Sermon, this tribute will feature music from Soul Train artists: James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and others interpreted by an all-star cast of independent artists including: Aiyana Smash,
- Jul 13, 2017
Kevin Young Speaks Truth to Black Power at the Schomburg Center
By Miles Marshall Lewis Poet Kevin Young, latest director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, titled Pulitzer-winning author Colson Whitehead’s first book, 1999’s The Intuitionist. The association with Whitehead (stemming from college-buddy days at Harvard) was the first I’d ever heard of Kevin Young, but certainly wouldn’t be the last. With 11 books of his own spanning the past 19 years— including Most Way Home, the Jean-Michel Basquiat-influenced To Repel
- Jul 13, 2017
Top 5 Harlem Rappers of All Time!
By Darryl Robertson Manhattan is one of the most affluent, densely populated hotspots in the world, known more for its financial-world prestige and its cultural cachet than its homegrown hip-hop culture. The most significant New York City-native rappers arguably originate from Brooklyn or Queens. But while there are way less MCs hailing from the neighborhood of Harlem than other NYC boroughs, Uptown has birthed its fair share of gifted wordsmiths over the years. With that, we
- Jul 8, 2017
Save the Date – Autumn in New York
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- Jul 6, 2017
Get Out* July 10th, Marcus Garvey Park
In Get Out, a speculative thriller from the mind of Jordan Peele, a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, and becomes ensnared in the more sinister real reason for the invitation. Music: Hip-hop, House and Soul by DJ Brittofied. Live Band: V Ferg presents Creative Public Offering. #cultural #guide #essential #event #Harlem #local #Uptown #culture #NewYork #experienceharlem #experience #NYC #shoplocal #harlemnyc #harlemites #NY
- Jun 21, 2017
Give the Gift of Summer Fund Challenge
A very generous anonymous donor has committed to match every contribution made this week to the BGCHarlem Summer Camp Fund $2 to $1 A gift of $50 buys not just one day of summer fun, but three! Help Harlem’s kids have a safe and enriching summer. Make your gift TODAY!DONATE NOW #cultural #guide #essential #event #Harlem #local #Uptown #culture #NewYork #experienceharlem #experience #NYC #shoplocal #harlemnyc #harlemites #NY
- Jun 16, 2017
Father’s Day Guide
Razor Bar
2254 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10037
646‐726‐4933
Facebook: @RazorBarHarlem
Every great day for a guy begins with a fresh haircut! Let him feel invincible after a trip to Harlem’s newest barbershop; Razor Bar. Frederick Benjamin
shop.frederickbenjamin.com
646‐417‐8128
Keep the confidence going with Frederick Benjamin grooming products; specifically designed tolet him keep the closest shave, free of razor bumps. NiLu Gift Shop
shopnilu.com
191 Lenox Avenue New York, N
- Jun 12, 2017
Apollo Spring Gala Enters 12th Year in Style
—By Miles Marshall Lewis. Follow MML on Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter at @furthermucker. A staple of the season since 2005, the Apollo Spring Gala stands as one of Harlem’s hottest tickets. A fundraising benefit for the Apollo Theater, the night always begins with a scintillating set of live performances on its legendary stage and ends with a tented spectacle of dance, high fashion and high spirits stretching ’til midnight. (Tonight’s 12th annual gala features superstars Sh
- Jun 9, 2017
REVIVAL is coming – June 17 in West Harlem
A CELEBRATION AND RENEWAL OF GREAT 20th CENTURY DANCE Interpreted and created by legendary modern dance artists with the DVP company and neighborhood seniors In collaboration with Summer on the Hudson and the Prospect Park Alliance CHOREOGRAPHERS
Ellen Graff
George Faison
Naomi Goldberg Haas
Stuart Hodes
Marnie Thomas Wood
Elizabeth Keen
Ramona Candy GUEST ARTISTS
Alice Teirstein
Laura Glenn
Chet Walker
Shirley Black-Brown
Myna Majors
Rita Carrington SAT, JUNE 17 | 6 pm & 7
- Jun 7, 2017
27th Annual MMPCIA Neighborhood House Tour
Join MMPCIA for The 27th Annual Neighborhood House Tour
Sunday, June 11th, from 11 AM to 4 PM Our theme this year is Living Legacy! The Mount Morris Park area is known for its close knit community and historic brownstones that bring you back in time. This year’s tour will feature some of the people that are the roots of the Mount Morris Park Historic District. They will invite you inside their homes: from cutting edge contemporaries and creative updates to classic elegance t
- Jun 7, 2017
New Web-Series and Podcast Opens Racial Justice Discussion Up to Kids
From Executive Producers Riley S. Wilson (Orange Bright) and Lisa Cortés (Precious) comes a live-action sci-fi/drama web series about a claircognizant (all-knowing) little Black girl living and growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem. A finalist for the 2016 Sundance Institute YouTube New Voices Lab, Little Apple is a modern-day coming of age story about a rapidly developing little girl finding her voice and fighting against complicity. Starring 10-year-old actress, Milan Wi
- Jun 5, 2017
Physical Culture PC BOOTCAMP D7
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- Jun 1, 2017
#ExperienceHarlem 2017 #FreeHarlem #HarlemSummer Guide: 50+ Free Events in Historic Harlem
Give us free, you say? Well, you got it. All summer long. The truth is the rent is too damn high and so is everything else. Take in the beauty and rich legacy of historic Harlem with Experience Harlem. We’ve done the legwork and put together a comprehensive guide for alla Uptown massive so you don’t have to; We’ve identified more than 33 events for the family; O.G.s, new jacks, music buffs, film lovers, sexy people and everyone else who loves this vibrant social and community
- May 31, 2017
#HarlemSummer Kids Calendar
Uptown is heating up and the little ones don’t have to miss out on the fun! Our Ultimate Guide to Summer for Kids has all of Harlem’s best programs for fun, education and a life-changing summer. Harlem YMCA
ymcanyc.org/harlem
180 W 135th St, New York, NY 10030
212-912-2100 Having programs for youth ranging from Kindercamp to Teen Camp, Harlem YMCA’s eight-week summer program (July 3rd–August 25th) offers everything from basketball and swimming to a traditional summer experien
- May 26, 2017
The Harlem School of the Arts held its Jump and Wave Spring 2017 Benefit
Our heartfelt thanks to our generous sponsors, Sweet Hospitality Group, Harlem Community Development Corporation, Williams Capital Group, our Co-Chairs Michelle Fizer-Peterson and Julie Rose, our hard working Benefit Committee, our Board of Directors, and our patrons for their generosity. Special thanks to our beverage sponsors Blackwell Rum and Ozwell, and our in-kind supporters Island Outpost, Crude Food, Aloft Harlem, and Miss Lily’s. Events such as Jump & Wave enable us
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