From writer Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Harlem follows a group of ambitious and driven women as they navigate life, love and friendship in Harlem, NYC. The series boasts a stellar cast that includes Meagan Good, Jerrie Johnson, Shoniqua Shandai, Grace Byers and Whoopi Goldberg. Catch Harlem on Amazon Prime NOW.
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You’re Watching Video Music Box Chronicles the longest-running music video show in the world, Video Music Box, launched and hosted in New York City by visionary DJ and MC Ralph McDaniels. With four decades of never-before-seen footage from McDaniel’s packed vault, the film spotlights the series’ global influence on Hip Hop, along with his professional and personal triumphs.
Catch You’re Watching Video Music Box only on @SHOWTIME right NOW.
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The Harlem Night Market returns to the historic La Marqueta this December 17th, 18th & 19th. Come out the last weekend before Christmas to celebrate the best food, makers and music from across East and West Harlem. This year they’ve expanded to include family friendly activities at @urbangardencenter and more vendors than ever in the stalls at @publicmarketsnyc.
@tedsmooth & @storminnorman will be holding it down again on the 1’s & 2’s and there will be plenty of hot foods and warm sweets to keep the chill off as you shop our makers plaza for unique holiday gifts. Be sure to bring your wallet, your appetite, and your friends, and come celebrate while supporting small and local businesses.
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Have you been naughty or nice this year? Be honest. Either way, come meet Santa at Tryon Public House (4740 Broadway) on Sunday, December 19 from 6 to 8 pm.
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By Gregg McQueen
Lieutenant Paramedic Anthony Almojera has lived through the nightmare.
He is still haunted by the memory of marathon shifts during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
During March and April 2020, calls for 911 assistance reached record levels throughout New York City.
“There were more than 6,500 calls daily. Since so many colleagues were out sick, we were doing 16-hour shifts,” said Almojera, who began his emergency medical service (EMS) career 17 years ago in Harlem and is now based in Brooklyn. “We dealt with lots of cardiac arrests every day. I saw more people die in that two-month span than the previous 10 years of my career combined.”
During the apex of the pandemic in New York City, nearly 25 percent of the EMS workforce was out sick, Almojera said, causing many 911 callers to suffer.
“We had [people] holding for hours because we didn’t have any ambulances left,” he recalled. “You think of how many ancillary people died because they didn’t want to go to the hospital during Covid or they didn’t have an ambulance to come get them.”
Though the call volume eventually subsided, the pandemic left an indelible toll on Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) and paramedics who work under the New York City Fire Department Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (FDNY EMS).
Read more: The forgotten first responders | Manhattan Times
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The documentary about the one and only Coogan’s, Coogan’s Way by Glenn Osten Anderson, will be on NYC TV again on WLIW on Wednesday, November 21 at 9 pm est. Coogan’s Way tells the story of this beloved Uptown institution that meant so much to so many. The film interviews the owners Dave Hunt, Tess O’Connor McDade, and Peter Walsh as well as such folks as Lin-Manuel Miranda and his dad Luis Miranda, former Congressman Charlie Rangel, our current Congressman Adriano Espaillat. Not to mention that our very own Led Black is interviewed in the film.
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It’s not just cases rising in NYC. (+55% in last two weeks.)
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) November 23, 2021
Now hospitalizations are starting to increase.
We can’t ignore this. Everyone please:
* get vax’d (kids too)
* get boosted (all 18+)
* keep getting tested
* mask in high-risk settings
* ventilate
We can do this. pic.twitter.com/H21RUjnBIX
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By Sherry Mazzocchi
The Moth. Known for stories that hit listeners right in the heart, often by way of the solar plexus, the tales told live stay with listeners for a long time after.
That was the case this summer, when Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) produced a show in conjunction with The Moth. The show, held at the United Palace, featured local artists and other notables—Bronx comedian and storyteller Edgar Ruiz, Jr., Washington Heights performer and youth advocate Esdras Santana, and a couple of creatives from In The Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda and co-creator Quiara Alegría Hudes. The show closed with Led Black, founder and editor of The Uptown Collective. His story, After the Plague Came the Renaissance, is about love, family and a moment of grace that transforms a life.
That story is featured on The Moth Radio Hour on the Live from the United Place episode, published Nov. 16.
Host C. J. Hunt said The Moth is about the craft of storytelling. The team at The Moth helps performers cull and shape their ideas, the way an artist carves a statue from a block of stone. They listen to their stories, help hone them, and shape it into something that goes ka-pow. “It’s a gift to have people look at your art and go, ‘There you are,” said Hunt. “That is what they do. We come to them with these stories and they go, ‘That’s it. It’s about that moment.”
The process is not unlike therapy.
Originally Black’s story was about his father, but it quickly evolved into something deeper and more transformative. Black talks about his childhood, growing up east of Broadway on Wadsworth and 191st Street and the first time he found out he was poor. His girlfriend, and future wife, Eileen, grew up on Bennett Avenue. For the benefit of people who don’t know the neighborhood, Black said that’s “more like the Upper West Side, way more affluent. No shame, but you can’t claim Washington Heights if you’re from Bennett,” he says.
Read more: Drawing light, live | Bronx Free Press
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A major overhaul is planned for the Dyckman Farmhouse in Inwood.
Built around 1784 by William Dyckman, the structure is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan and currently houses a museum.
On November 10, the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance, a group created to raise funds to preserve the farmhouse, announced the planned renovation project, which will improve accessibility through ADA access to the property and ADA-compliant restrooms.
In addition, the project will install the addition of a ramp from the street onto the property to provide improved access to the park space, according to a press release.
It marks the first major refurbishment for the house since 2003.
Read more: Dyckman Farmhouse to receive major renovation | Manhattan Times
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