SHOP: THE WINTER FARMERS MARKET 2023

Harlem Bespoke: The Morningside Park Farmers Market has been around for over 10 years now and recently extended the season into the winter months. Everything shut down for the holidays at the end of December but the regular schedule starts up again on January 7th of 2023.  This outdoor pop-up on West 110th Street and Manhattan Avenue runs every Saturday from 9:00AM to 2:00PM and a list of visiting merchant can be found on the official website: LINK

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CELEBRATE: HOLIDAY PARK TREE LIGHTING 2022

Saturday, December 3rd, 4:30PM-6:00PM, West Harlem Piers Tree Lighting, 125th Street by the Hudson River.  Celebrate the season with live music, tree decoration making and hot chocolate with riverside views. Dress for the weather since temperatures are colder by the water.  All local lighting celebration are Free to the public and social distancing protocol apply: LINK

Saturday, December 3rd, 5:00PM-6:00PM, Christmas Tree lighting at St. Nicholas Park Plaza, by West 135th Street. Mark those calendars and join neighbors in December for holiday festivities and check out the annual St. Nicholas Park tree lighting!  This is one of the many free tree lighting events of the season and is a great way to celebrate in Central Harlem. 

Saturday, December 3rd,  5:00PM, Morningside Park Tree Lighting celebration, Morningside Avenue at 120th Street.  The tallest city tree to be decorated in a park for the holiday season holds court at Morningside Park!  We especially like that uptown's local parks have great living trees that are not cut down and will always be on display throughout the year albeit without decor.  Caroling, donuts, hot cider and much merriment will be included on the big day courtesy of Friends of Morningside Park: LINK

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CONTEMPORARY CUBAN ART AT THE WALLACH

Harlem Bespoke: Over the last few decades, the contemporary art world in Cuba has undergone various changes including increases in the political and cultural agency of the artist, the emergence of unofficial “underground” exhibition spaces and practices, and surges of tourism and foreign interest in Cuban art.

MIZNON ARRIVING AT FORMER MILL STOREFRONT

Harlem Bespoke:  The Mill restaurant was the spot uptown for Korean food but the eatery shuttered last year after the hardships of the pandemic.  We had hoped that possibly another Korean cuisine establishment would take over the spot on Broadway by 113th Street but it turns out something else is arriving soon.

SHOP: SATURDAY AT MORNINGSIDE FARMERS MARKET

Harlem Bespoke: The Morningside Park Farmers Market has been around over decade now and is growing bigger each year.  A couple of new buildings have sprouted up around the park since that first market but what remains consistent is the selection of fresh produce, fish, meats and locally made good from New York City.

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SHOP: AWNING SIGNAGE AT 314 PIZZA ON BROADWAY

Harlem Bespoke: One of our favorite uptown wood oven pizza spots has made a move to a new location on Broadway just a couple of block south of 125th Street by LaSalle Street and there appears to now be some progress at hand.

LISTEN: JAZZMOBILE AT GRANT'S TOMB

Harlem Bespoke:  Jazzmobile is back with free live weekly performances uptown every week of the summer!  This is one of those true uptown events where all the neighbors come out and listen to an evening of free music. Bring out your lawn chairs and masks!

BESPOKE KIDS: BILLION OYSTER PROJECT IN AUGUST

Harlem Bespoke:  Oysters are the green way to filter New York waterways and used to be one of the most abundant species with the local ecosystem.  The Billion Oyster Project has been successfully re-introducing the bivalves back in the greater New York Harbor and has a goal of one billion oysters in the waters by the time 2035 rolls around. 

HARLEM BESPOKE SUBSCRIPTION EMAIL UPDATE

Harlem Bespoke:  Google will be cancelling the current email subscription format this year so we have switched to follow.it for the newsletter.  All current subscribers will be getting an updated feed confirmation link via email this week but if you want to switch right away to follow.it then just type in your email address below and press the subscribe button.  

LISTEN: JAZZMOBILE AT GRANT'S TOMB

Harlem Bespoke:  Jazzmobile is back with free live weekly performances uptown every week of the summer!  This is one of those true uptown events where all the neighbors come out and listen to an evening of free music. Bring out your lawn chairs and masks!

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RENT: ONE BEDROOM IN MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS

Harlem Bespoke:  So the average in Manhattan rent for a non-doorman studio is a whopping $2,899 a month but those living uptown can save thousands each year with the deals happening recently.

GOATS RETURN TO RIVERSIDE PARK 2022

Harlem Bespoke: The goats are back at Riverside Park and West 120th Street on the upper level! Did you know the word Gotham basically means goat town? Harlem was known as a village full of goats before the brownstones arrived by the end of the 1800s and now everything has gone full circle.

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