LEH News Updates

It's that time of year! Join us on May 6th for another exciting Janes Walk Tour, presented by the Municipal Art Society (MAS).
LEH September News Blast
We are absolutely thrilled to announce the award of a $12K grant from Preservation League of New York State! As the fiscal sponsor for the Landmark East Harlem coalition, Ascendant Neighborhood Development applied for a grant to fund a reconnaissance level survey of historic resources in the northern portion of East Harlem.
In the fall of 2014, Joanna Delson, Executive Vice President of CIVITAS Citizens, Inc., Marina Ortiz, President of East Harlem Preservation (EHP), and Connie Lee, the then-President of the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance, met at a CIVITAS co-sponsored session at the National Academy of Design, titled Historic Preservation and the Park Avenue Historic District. Here they discovered a shared interest in historic preservation in East Harlem.
This month is Black History Month. In this blast we reveal a new Cicely Tyson interactive storymap, updates to our Cicely mural campaign, and revisit the Dorrance Brooks Square Historic District one year after LPC's historic designation.
This month we explore a historic East Harlem Firehouse, a new Cicely Tyson mural campaign, and remember MLK Jr.'s harrowing Harlem incident and the Harlem doctors who saved his life.
As we come to the end of another challenging pandemic year, we thought you might enjoy a reminder of some of the gorgeous East Harlem historic structures that have stood the test of time. Click the photos to learn more about these neighborhood treasures!
This week, as we enjoy a time-honored Thanksgiving holiday where our nation gives thanks for the colonizing efforts of Europeans to create our current America, we should pause to reflect on and honor the remarkable, original stewards of this land we call home. Indigenous history is this land’s foundation, and we have a lot to learn from indigenous peoples’ past and present stewardship of our beloved landscapes.
With October 15th marking the end to Hispanic Heritage Month, we thought we would spotlight an impressive NYC Landmark that has beautiful and deeply rooted ties to the Hispanic community of East Harlem. Designated as an Individual Landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1996, 1674 Lexington Avenue currently houses the Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center, but first began its life as Public School 72.

LEH News Updates

It's that time of year! Join us on May 6th for another exciting Janes Walk Tour, presented by the Municipal Art Society (MAS).
LEH September News Blast
We are absolutely thrilled to announce the award of a $12K grant from Preservation League of New York State! As the fiscal sponsor for the Landmark East Harlem coalition, Ascendant Neighborhood Development applied for a grant to fund a reconnaissance level survey of historic resources in the northern portion of East Harlem.
In the fall of 2014, Joanna Delson, Executive Vice President of CIVITAS Citizens, Inc., Marina Ortiz, President of East Harlem Preservation (EHP), and Connie Lee, the then-President of the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance, met at a CIVITAS co-sponsored session at the National Academy of Design, titled Historic Preservation and the Park Avenue Historic District. Here they discovered a shared interest in historic preservation in East Harlem.