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Aug
1
11:30 AM11:30
USA

Harlem, New York: Growing up in Harlem

Join us to explore Harlem. We will start at the National Black Theatre, walk along 5th avenue, past the old Liberation Book Store on 131st street, and head north on 7th avenue, walking by a mural and ending at Shrine.
 
This walk is part of a new play called “Gutting,” written by Jeremy Kamps, being produced in Harlem by Company Cypher at the National Black Theatre, September 24 - October 3. “Gutting” is set three years after Hurricane Katrina and follows 14-year-old runaway Kali and the people around her who struggle to keep their homes in the Lower 9th Ward from being gutted. As part of the production and the ten-year-anniversary of the Hurricane, we are hosting various Jane Jacobs Walks in Harlem, so audiences can see the real impact of urban development and displacement, and have discussions about gentrification, displacement, and race issues that affect us here in Harlem. For more information, go to www.gutting2015.org or check it out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guttingbyjeremykamps

Date:  Saturday, August 1, 2015

Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Event Start/End: 
BEGIN: National Black Theatre, 2031 5th Ave, NYC 10035 (btwn 125th & 126th streets)
END: Shrine, 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd, NYC 10030 (btwn 133rd & 134th streets)

Host: Members of "Gutting," a new play at the National Black Theatre
guttingjanejacobswalks@gmail.com

Theme: Walking

Accessibility: This event is accessible and open to children and strollers.

Registration: No, all are welcome.

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New York, NY: Upper West Side Urban Renewal: Blight or Right in the Sight of Jane?
May
2
11:00 AM11:00
New York, USA

New York, NY: Upper West Side Urban Renewal: Blight or Right in the Sight of Jane?

  • 325 Central Park West New York, NY, 10025 United States (map)
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Looking down 100th Street from Central Park West: On the north side what Jane loved—tenements, store fronts, a remnant of the old neighborhood where the ghosts of Billie Holiday, James Weldon Johnson, and Arthuro Schomberg still hover. On the south side—what Moses wrought—towering Park West Village with Le Corbusier the spectral presence. Question (with sixty years hindsight): the West Side lives and thrives because of or in spite of urban renewal? We’ll walk 100th Street and nearby streets taking into consideration what urban renewal did and did not deliver in regard to low and moderate income housing, mixed-use development, and neighborhood vitality.

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2015

Time(s): 11:00 AM start

Event Start/End: 

  • BEGIN 325 Central Park West (between 92nd and 93rd St)
  • End: 400 Central Park West (at 100th St), back garden

Post Walk Picnic (optional): by the pond nearest the 100th St entrance to Central Park at the Firemen statue in Washington Square Park, near the corner of Columbus Ave and Filbert St.

Host: Lynne Elizabeth, New Village Press hello@newvillagepress.net

Theme: Walking

Accessibility: This event is accessible and open to Wheelchairs, Bicycles, Seniors, Children, an easy walk along paved sidewalks.

Registration: No, all are welcome.

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