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Arts & Culture

Flower Shops for Valentine’s Day

With a tsunami of advertising since right after Christmas, we are right down to it – the week of Valentine’s

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AFineLyne Feb 11, 2013

Arts & Culture

Visiting a Few of our Uptown Museums during Black History Month

New York….New York. What a City we live in, and what better way to explore it then a trip

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AFineLyne Feb 4, 2013

Arts & Culture

Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park: A Watercolor Tour

[Update 8/28/13: The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association and the New York City Department of Parks &

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AFineLyne Jan 28, 2013

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A Little Stretch of West 11th Street in Greenwich Village

Starting out at 5th Avenue and heading west on 11th Street toward Greenwich Village,   we can’t walk by #18

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AFineLyne Jan 21, 2013

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Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem to Be Resurrected

Henry Minton was a tenor saxophonist who opened Minton’s Playhouse in 1938. The house band had names like Thelonious

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AFineLyne Jan 14, 2013

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On the Watercolor Trail to Morningside Heights

Broadway is the oldest North-South thoroughfare in our City. Like many of our streets, it originated as an Indian trail

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AFineLyne Jan 8, 2013

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Harlem’s Best Bakeries

What do you think of when you think of Harlem?  Jazz…Soul Food?  What about bakeries?  So many, in fact,

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AFineLyne Dec 31, 2012

Arts & Culture

Harlem’s Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Watercolor

Also known as The Gateway to Harlem, Frederick Douglass Boulevard has been in the news a lot lately.  Over the

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AFineLyne Dec 17, 2012

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Harlem’s Little Africa Marketplace

On 116th Street, just east of Lenox Avenue, you will find one of my favorite markets – The Malcolm Shabazz Harlem

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AFineLyne Dec 10, 2012

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Harlem & All That Jazz

Harlem’s history is filled with music, dance and theatre from the days of The Savoy Ballroom and The Cotton

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AFineLyne Dec 3, 2012

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The Treasures of MacDougal Street

There is so much history to be found on MacDougal Street, starting at the north end near Washington Square Park

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AFineLyne Nov 26, 2012

Arts & Culture

Hallelujah – The Gospel According to Harlem

The diversity in our great City seems to know no bounds, and nowhere is this more evident then the way

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AFineLyne Nov 19, 2012