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Popmaster Fabel, Hip Hop Legend, Dance Master, Native Icon

Camilla Webster | Posted 07.09.2012 | New York
Read More: Zulu Kings, Street Music, Break Dancing, Spanish Harlem, Old School Hip Hop, Physical Graffiti, Electric Boogaloos, Hip Hop, Suga Pop, Tools of War: Grassroots Hip Hop, Total Chaos, Graffiti Writing, True School Park Jam Series, Popping and Locking, Popmaster Fabel, New York News
Camilla Webster

In our desire to suss out the fascinating, intricate history and current life of real hip hop in New York City, we had the good fortune of sitting down with Popmaster Fabel.

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Latino Neighborhoods Becoming New Tourism Hot Spots

Posted 12.05.2011 | Latino Voices
Read More: Tourism, Cultura, Video, Little Havana, Latin Tourism, Spanish Harlem, Chicago, Pilsen Neighborhood, Street Art, Calle Ocho, Calle 8, El Barrio, Latino, Latino Voices News

Latino immigration is reshaping entire neighborhoods throughout the country, and sparking new community trends. The vibrant culture of many of these ...

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El Barrio Week Kicks Off In East Harlem

dnainfo.com | Posted 08.01.2011 | New York
Read More: El Barrio Today Arts Cluster, El Barrio Week, Taller Boricua, La-Marqueta-New-York, Spanish Harlem, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, East Harlem, East Harlem International Film Festival, New York News

HARLEM -- The first-ever El Barrio Week kicks off Wednesday and will feature 14 days of art exhibits, cooking demonstrations, spoken word performances...

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Best Eats For One Dollar In Washington Heights

Metromix New York | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: NYC Restaurants, Dollar, Spanish Harlem, Washington Heights, Food Carts, NY Restaurants, New York City Restaurants, New York Food Carts, Best of Ny, New York News

When I think of cheap food in Manhattan, my mind wanders to the dumpling stalls of Chinatown and the hobo-friendly, dollar-slice pizza joints of Hell'...

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"Barricade Bench" Constructed In Spanish Harlem

newyorkshitty.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Benches, Barricade Bench, Barricades, Spanish Harlem, New York News

There is genius and then there is GENIUS. This creation (which hails from Spanish Harlem where I went on a photo walk with the immensely talented Stev...

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Target In Manhattan: East Harlem Gets Manhattan's First Store

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Target in Manhattan, Spanish Harlem, NYC Real Estate, Target, Target in Nyc, Nyc Events, Target Spanish Harlem, New York News, Is There a Target in Nyc, NYC Shopping, New York News

NEW YORK — After years of flirting with Manhattan, the bull's-eye has landed in East Harlem. Target's first store on the New York island offici...

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Here Comes the Neighborhood: The Housing Movement Goes Global in East Harlem

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Third Encuentro, Movement for Justice in El Barrio, Shack Dwellers Movement, Sunset Park Alliance of Neighbors, Clinton-Bush Fund, Spanish Harlem, People?S Front in Defense of the Land, Mexico, El Barrio, Real Estate, Haiti Relief, Private Equity, Haiti, Gentrification, Coalition to Preserve Community, East Harlem, South Africa, Hope Community, Other Campaign, Harlem, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Harlem Tenants Council, Tenants, Housing, Dawnay Day, Lakou New York, International Campaign in Defense of El Barrio, Glocal, Atenco, Mjb, Columbia University, New York News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Here, amid the glittering ruins of globalized gentrification's gilded age, a kind of glocal tenants' movement is taking shape, at once locally rooted ...

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A Museum, A Community, A Festival

Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: East Harlem, NYC Department of Health, New York City Housing Authority, El Museo Del Barrio, Upper East Side, Spanish Harlem, Museums, Food Desert, Hispanics, Julian Zugazagoitia, New York News
Liz Neumark

How interesting to embark on a project developing the menu for a museum whose surrounding neighborhood -- El Barrio -- has been described as a food desert.

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The Unknown, Famous Leiber and Stoller

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Jailhouse Orck, Stand by Me, Songwriter, Spanish Harlem, Jerry Leiber, On Broadway, Mike Stoller, Songwriting, Rock and Roll, Yakety Yak, Legendary, R&b, Entertainment News
Robert J. Elisberg

Mike Stoller and his writing partner Jerry Leiber are a songwriting team for which the description "legendary" was coined. Even if their names are not familiar to you, you've heard their music.

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Harvey Milk Lives -- in Albany

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Spanish Harlem, Roosevelt Island, COBRA Legislation, Mike Bloomberg, Disabled, Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, Jewish Progressive, Albany, Transgender, Gay, Jonathan Bing, Rainbow Flag, United Federation of Teachers, Bisexual, Micah Kellner, Millionaires? Tax, Talking Points Memo, Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Education, www.micahkellner.net, Gay Agenda, Harvey Milk, LGBT Seniors, New York City, Daily Beast, Carolyn Maloney, Gay Marriage, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Lesbian, Harlem, New York Post, Bill Thompson, Joel Klein, New York Times, Peter Grannis, The Mayor of Castro Street, New York State Assembly, Huffington Post, Chuck Schumer, New York University, Wheelchair-Accessible, New York, Politics News
Jim Luce

Handsome, dedicated, and driven, Micah is the disabled with cerebral palsy, Jewish progressive, openly bisexual, who represents a swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

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