⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC: Harlem neighborhood tour

May 21, 2024 - 7:00 PM
80°F / 27°C

Walkthrough (without narration) of the Harlem neighborhood of New York City via the following route: westbound on 116th Street → Little Senegal → A. Philip Randolph Square → northbound on St. Nicholas Avenue → northbound on Frederick Douglass Boulevard → eastbound on 125th Street (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) → southbound on Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue). Filmed with GoPro Hero 12.

Highlights:
00:00 - Walking westbound on 116th Street
01:08 - Mount Zion A.M.E. Church
01:26 - Crossing Madison Avenue
03:26 - Crossing Fifth Avenue
04:32 - The Kalahari Condominiums
05:11 - Salvation and Deliverance Church
05:48 - Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market
07:03 - 116th Street (No. 2/3 lines) subway station, crossing Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue)
07:25 - Masjid Malcolm Shabazz mosque
08:12 - Le Petit Sénégal (Little Senegal)
10:50 - First Corinthian Baptist Church, crossing Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard
12:00 - A. Philip Randolph Square
13:05 - Walking northbound on St. Nicholas Avenue
17:46 - Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial
18:27 - Walking northbound on Frederick Douglass Boulevard
19:22 - Aloft Harlem hotel
19:55 - The United House of Prayer for All People, AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 cinema
21:40 - Walking eastbound on 125th Street (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard)
22:16 - The Apollo Theater
23:03 - Renaissance New York Harlem Hotel (former Victoria Theater)
24:49 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building
27:44 - 125th Street (No 2/3 lines) subway station
28:05 - Walking southbound on Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue)
29:20 - New York Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist Church
30:40 - St. Martin's Episcopal Church
32:15 - Returning to Masjid Malcolm Shabazz mosque

From Wikipedia:
"Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and Central Park North on the south. The greater Harlem area encompasses several other neighborhoods and extends west and north to 155th Street, east to the East River, and south to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Central Park, and East 96th Street.

Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle. Harlem was predominantly occupied by Jewish and Italian Americans in the 19th century, but African-American residents began to arrive in large numbers during the Great Migration in the 20th century. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the center of the Harlem Renaissance, a major African-American cultural movement. With job losses during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. In the 21st century, crime rates decreased significantly, and Harlem started to gentrify.

The area is served by the New York City Subway and local bus routes. It contains several public elementary, middle, and high schools, and is close to several colleges, including Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music, and the City College of New York."