New York City’s First Casino

Until this weekend, the local gambling scene consisted of:

• Instant scratch-offs.
• C-grade health-inspected sushi restaurants.
• High-stakes mah-jongg with your nana.

Dandy Gent: HarlemWeen Photo Of The Day

Harlem World Magazine Intern Martial dresses as “Dandy Gent” for Halloween in Harlem. Before he left out of the office Martial said, “I’m an old man with a top hat and cane.”

Harlem Dowling Looking Forward During Its 175th Anniversary

Harlem Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services recently held its annual board meeting at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building’s Art Gallery. 

3 Picks For Reading This Fall In Harlem By Eartha Watts-Hicks (update)

I am a member of the Harlem Writers Guild. I used to be an avid reader. I readily admit that my relationship with books changed the moment I decided to become a writer. Before I read books the way I watched television, purely for enjoyment. Now, I read to study style, voice, and syntax.

Walter’s World: Purelements: An Evolution in Dance to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary

By Walter Rutledge

In 1981 two crews met for battle at a community center in a Brooklyn housing project. The crews were not battling with guns and knives these crews weapon of choice was break dance moves and hip-hop bravado.

Harlem Group Sitting On Columbia Community “Expansion” Cash (update)

NYPost reports that Columbia University gave a West Harlem group $3.5 million, and all the community got for its money were some consultants and a temporary job program for teens.

In E. Harlem, ‘Keep Out’ Signs Apply Even to Renters

East Harlem has been undergoing a resurgence for two decades, yet the neighborhood is still pockmarked with four- or five-story walk-ups where the ground-floor stores are bustling and the apartments above are devoid of life.

Daniel Fawcett Tiemann “The Paint King Of New York,” From The Village Of Harlem

Once upon a time there was a village called Manhattanville, a small, originally Quaker community that planted itself between a bustling but still bucolic section of Bloomingdale Road (later Broadway) and the Hudson River. A remnant of the old village remains in the small neighborhood that shares its name today, north of Morningside Heights between 122nd and 135th streets on the west side.

James Baldwin, ‘The Negro Protest’ (Signed Autograph Book)

James Baldwin’s “The Negro Protest,” the book is a signed autograph copy by the author during the 1960′s.

James Baldwin ‘Go Tell It On The Mountain’ (Signed Photo)

James Baldwin ‘Go Tell It On The Mountain’ a signed photo of the author. Own a rare signed copy of the book here.

Oprah Reviews Maya Angelou’s ‘The Heart of A Women’ (Signed Edition)

Oprah Winfrey talks about Maya Angelou’s The Heart of A Women:

“In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers.

Harlem Grandmother, Julia Hernandez, Found Murdered In Apartment

A 35-year-old ex-con was hauled into court Friday for the violent choking death of his young daughter’s great-grandmother in her East Harlem home.

Gregory Velez, 35, was charged with first-degree murder for the brutal slaying that left Julia Hernandez with 12 fractured ribs and bruises across her face and scalp, officials charged.