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HGTV casting call: Design team wants to transform your home

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Jan 6, 2011 @ 12:44


By HarlemGal
A New York-based production company, working for HGTV, is looking for energetic and vibrant homeowners (singles, families, couples) in the New York Tri-State area who want their homes transformed, but not sure how to make it happen. If you think your home qualifies and the TV show is a good fit, send an email to designteamcasting@gmail.com with the following information:
 
Your name, address and contact info (please include e-mail address and cell phone number)

List of rooms to be styled, photos are a big plus!
Photos of yourself & the members of your household

Favorite style you’d like to see (or do you want to be surprised?)
Your real design budget
 
The top-secret TV show (they won’t tell us the name) will be shooting between January and April 2011.

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The National Black Theater hosts free retirement seminar

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Jan 4, 2011 @ 10:30

By HarlemGal
It’s  a new year and during this time most of us start to execute some of the resolutions we made. One resolution could be about planning for retirement. If that is the case, we want to pass along information about a FREE retirement seminar that is taking place at The National Black Theater, located at 2031-33 5th Avenue, this month sponsored by Robinson Rose Capital Management, LLC. See the details below and remember to RSVP in advance.

FREE
Retirement Seminar-What You Should Consider Now
January 12th, 2011
7:00 PM -9:00 PM
The National Black Theater
2031-33 5th Ave
(Btwn 125th & 126th Streets)

To attend, an RSVP is required by emailing appt@robinsonrose.com or calling (212) 249-3715.

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Watch Tonnie’s Minis from Harlem compete on the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars

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Jan 4, 2011 @ 7:00
By HarlemGal
Harlem’s Tonnie’s Minis, located at 264 Lenox Avenue, is competing tonight (January 4) on the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. The show starts at 9 PM. Let’s show Tonnie’s  Minis some love by turning on the tube tonight supporting our local cupcake store as they battle it out in the Cupcake Wars!

Turn to Channel 50, if you have Time Warner Cable!

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Harlem’s Frederick Douglass Blvd wins 2010 Curbed Cup Neighborhood of the Year

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Jan 3, 2011 @ 12:10

By HarlemGal
We won it! Harlem’s Frederick Douglass Boulevard has been named 2010 Neighborhood of the Year by Curbed.com. Yes! Congrats to FDB!

And might we respectfully add, winning the Curbed Cup brings sweet vindication and acknowledges what we have been saying all along, this area is hot! Go back to November 19, 2008 on this site. We predicted that FDB was headed to restaurant row status. Then a year later HarlemCondoLife.com, was the first to use the term “gold coast” to describe the FDB area!

Since our inception in 2008, we have taken some serious blows via blog post comments about focusing on this area. At times it was hurtful and hard not to take personal. However, we looked to our core beliefs and said “blog about your Harlem experience” and this area kept coming forward in our words! Despite these feelings, we emphatically have to state “We love every inch of Harlem.”

And to those who knocked us for believing in FDB, we say “truth is generally the best vindication…” Next up for FDB, New York Magazine!

 

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Harlem’s Frederick Douglass Boulevard is a finalist in Curbed Cup

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Dec 30, 2010 @ 17:20
By HarlemGal
Pardon my lateness regarding this post. I have been on holiday…(still am) and have fallen behind on my blog posting. Any how, I have received several messages about our awesome neighborhood/community, ie the surrounding area of FDB, being chosen as a finalist in Curbed.com’s New York City neighborhood of the year for 2010. That is wonderful news. However, it’s quite not good enough. We need to win it! If you believe our community should win, click here to vote. My understanding is the poll is open until January 1, 2011!

I cast my vote! Did you?

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Did social media help a Harlem bakery back into business?

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Dec 22, 2010 @ 14:00
By HarlemGal

Lee Lee’s Baked Goods in Harlem has been featured in the media among various publications, but now Alvin Lee Smalls and his bakery at 283 West 118th Street are the subject of social media and small business. A graduate student at the CUNY School of Journalism interviewed several individuals, including HarlemCondoLife.com, about the events that occurred back in May 2010 when Lee Lee’s almost closed and asked “what made the boutique Harlem bakery reopen? Was it Social Media?” Smalls answers those questions here!

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Vote for Frederick Douglass Blvd in annual Curbed.com neighborhood poll

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Dec 17, 2010 @ 10:56
By HarlemGal
Frederick Douglass Blvd has been nominated to compete as best neighborhood of the year. It’s competing against Hunters Point in Queens. The Curbed Cup is collecting votes today! Go here to vote!

Go FDB!

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Arianna Huffington stops by Harlem LitWorld Girls Club

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Dec 15, 2010 @ 15:34
By HarlemGal
According to The Huffington Post.com, Arianna Huffington was in Harlem the evening of December 14! Arianna paid a visit to The Harlem LitWorld Girls Club as part of her latest Third World book tour. Ariana addressed the all female crowd about her story of empowerment through writing. View pictures of the event here!

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Meet muralist “Franco the Great” and his contribution to Harlem

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Dec 10, 2010 @ 0:14
By HarlemGal
The Uptowner has shed light on the muralist who “paints winter scenes and other holiday-themed decor on storefronts across Harlem,” during the holiday season and specifically on 125th Street.  Meet Franco Gaskin, who calls himself “Franco the Great” or as others call him “Franco the Magnificent.” Watch this video! It will explain why Gaskin earns both titles!

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Apollo Theater in Harlem elects new board

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Dec 8, 2010 @ 14:52
By HarlemGal
If you were wondering who sits on the Board for the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, wonder no more. Around noon today, the Apollo notified several constituents that last night, (I guess after the holiday lighting event?) they elected seven new board members for its 2010-2011 Winter/Spring Season.
The new directors are Marcus Samuelsson, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Leslie Uggams, Luis A. Miranda Jr., Maya Harris, Marcella A. Jones, and Ingrid Saunders Jones.
Congrats to the new board members and good to know for us Harlemites!

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