GLASS AT NEW MANHATTAVILLE HOTEL

Harlem Bespoke:  The hotel at 410 West 126th Street and Morningside Avenue started up right before the pandemic and now the windows are finally being installed.  We walked this section Manhattanville last week and took the above photos and things are really moving quickly at this point in time.  Check out our past post for more details on the forthcoming tourist abode: LINK

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THE MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL RETURNS 2023

Harlem Bespoke:   One of the city's biggest cultural block party will happening in June with free admission to all of the notable museums to be found on upper Manhattan including El Museo, The Africa Center, The Museum of the City of New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cooper Hewitt and more. 

LISTEN: JUNETEENTH AT JACKIE ROBINSON PARK

Saturday, June 17th, 2:00PM-5:00PM, National Jazz Museum In Harlem Juneteenth Black Music Festival at Jackie Robinson Park, by 148th Street and Bradhurst Avenue at the Jackie Robinson Park Bandshell.  NJMH Juneteenth Black Music Festival is an outdoor music and dance celebration rooted in community, movement, and sounds from the Black Diaspora. Featured artists include vocalist Charenee Wade, poet, vocalist, musician and designer Tai Allen with his group Sample Sale, and freestyle dance and music group LayeRhythm.  This event is free and open to the public: LINK

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REMEMBER: THE LEGENDARY IMPERIAL LODGE OF ELKS

Harlem Bespoke:  In celebration of Pride Month, HB will be revisiting some of the great history of uptown's LGBT legacy that goes back to the Renaissance years.  This article was previously published back in 2015 and reveals the range of diversity in Harlem seldom covered by the mainstream media.

Over the weekend, we caught up with some Harlem cultural history by watching Paris is Burning for about the 30th time and still wondered where the main ballroom in the film was located at within Harlem.  There is so much going on in the amazing Jennny Livingston documentary from 1990 which showcase the underground ballroom scene of Harlem that one can miss out when the narrator mentions the Imperial Lodge of Elks at 160 West 129th Street.  Viewers actually can see the taxidermy of an elk's head up at the lacquered red balconies in many of the scenes.

CELEBRATE: HIGHBRIDGE 175TH ANNIVERSARY

Tuesday, June 6th from 10:00AM-12:00PM,  Tour Inside Highbridge Tower, West 174th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Join NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue, Bronx and Manhattan elected officials, civic leaders, and community partners for a 175th Anniversary celebration of the oldest standing bridge in NYC: the High Bridge.