Notable New Yorkers of Harlem includes over 800 individual Notables with details, including addresses.  The book also includes more than 30 sidebars of Harlem Local Yore.

 

Here are a few that are not in the book:

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HARLEM HOSPITAL - WPA MURALS

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Harlem Hospital was founded in 1887 in a former Victorian mansion at 120 St on the  East River. It moved into  its present location in Harlem in 1907 with 150 beds and has since grown to 252 beds and a teaching affiliation with the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. The hospital expanded over the years to be centered at 508 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street. In response to hospitals in New York City not hiring African American nurses, the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing was established in 1923. In 1977, it closed. 

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In 1936, a series of murals were commissioned for Harlem Hospital by the Works Progress Administration. Three of them were the first commissions in the country to be executed by African American artists, Georgette Seabrook, Veris Hayes, and Charles Alston. The fourth, Alfred Crimi, produced a fresco panel.  A large-scale glass curtain wall on the Malcolm X Boulevard side of the hospital complex interprets the historic murals and the Harlem community, drawing especially from Vertis Hayes’s 1937 mural, Pursuit of Happiness.

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VINEGAR HILL

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Vinegar Hill is the long-forgotten area in Harlem near 135th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. There is another Vinegar Hill in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn. Vinegar Hill refers to a battle with 10,000 British troops in 1798 that took place south of Dublin, Ireland. 

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Irish laborers populated Harlem during the second half of the 19th Century and many lived in Vinegar Hill. They did the hard work to build the Croton Aqueduct, the elevated railroads, and the subways. They also graded the streets, constructed buildings, and formed the fabric of their community and political organizations. 
 

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