1972 Harlem mosque incident

Masjid Malcolm Shabazz, formerly known as Mosque No. 7, is a Sunni Muslim mosque in Harlem, New York City. It was formerly a Nation of Islam mosque at which Malcolm X preached, until he left it for Sunni Islam in 1964.

The 116th Street station is a station on the IRT Lenox Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 116th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, it is served by the 2 and 3 trains at all times. The 116th Street station was constructed for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as part of the city's first subway line, which was approved in 1900. Construction on the tunnel segment that includes the 116th Street station started on October 2 of the same year. The station opened on November 23, 1904. The station platforms were lengthened in 1910. The 116th Street station contains two side platforms and two tracks. The station was built with tile and mosaic decorations. The platforms contain exits to Lenox Avenue's intersection with 116th Street and are not connected to each other within fare control.

116th Street runs from Riverside Drive, overlooking the Hudson River, to the East River, through the New York City borough of Manhattan. It traverses the neighborhoods of Morningside Heights, Harlem, and Spanish Harlem; the street is interrupted between Morningside Heights and Harlem by Morningside Park.

Graham Court is a historic apartment building in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, along Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West 116th and 117th Streets. It was commissioned by William Waldorf Astor, designed by the architects Clinton and Russell, and constructed in 1899-1901 as part of the great Harlem real-estate boom.The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building a landmark in 1984, characterizing the Graham Court as "one of the premier reminders of the urban development of Harlem at the turn of the century" and "one of the signal achievements in the history of the apartment house in New York City." The New York Times suggested that it might be Harlem's "equivalent to the Dakota".

The Church of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal was a Roman Catholic parish, a part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The church was located at 114th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. The parish was established in 1927 to serve the Spanish-speaking community of upper Manhattan and the Bronx. It was the second parish established in the Archdiocese to serve this growing population, the first being the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Greenwich Village. It was staffed by Vincentian Fathers from Spain. The parish was closed in the 1980s.

New Bethel Way of the Cross Church of Christ (originally Congregation Shaare Zedek of Harlem) is a historic church and former synagogue at 23–25 West 118th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Designed by Michael Bernstein in the Moorish Revival style, it occupies a site of 50 by 100 feet (15 by 30 m). The building has a brick facade, terracotta trim, and an asphalt roof. The main elevation of the facade, to the south, has several entrance archways and a circular rose window in the center, as well as twin towers crowned with bulbous, copper-covered domes. Inside, an entrance vestibule leads to a sanctuary with balcony. Stairs lead up to the balcony and down to auxiliary spaces in the basement, and there are a pastor's study and deacon's quarters flanking the sanctuary. The building was developed by Shaare Zedek, a Conservative Jewish congregation that originally met on the Lower East Side before splitting into two congregations in the late 1890s. The subsidiary congregation bought land in 1899 and completed the synagogue in 1901. The main congregation remained on the Lower East Side until 1914, when it merged with the Harlem congregation; it moved out in 1921. The building was then used by another congregation, Chevra Talmud Torah Dagustow, and subsequently by Canaan Baptist Church from 1935 to 1966. Since 1966, it has been used by the Bethel Way of the Cross Church of Christ. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Mt. Olivet Baptist Church is a historic church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Charles T. Walker served as pastor.Rev. O. Clay Maxwell served as pastor. Richetta Randolph Wallace under him. The church building was constructed in 1907 for Temple Israel. It was purchased in 1925 and became the home for Mt. Olivet's African American congregation. Architectural features of the synagogue remain visible. Visitors to the church have included Hugo Chavez, Robert Mugabe, and Howard Dean.The church is at 201 Lenox Avenue, also known as Malcolm X Boulevard. The church hosts an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day service. The Harlem Gospel Choir performs at the church. The Library of Congress has a photograph of attendees taken by Marilyn Nance.

The Harry Belafonte 115th Street Branch of the New York Public Library is a historic library building located in Harlem, New York City. It was designed by McKim, Mead & White and built in 1907–1908 and opened on November 6, 1908. It is a three-story-high, three-bay-wide building faced in deeply rusticated gray limestone in a Neo Italian Renaissance style. The branch was one of 65 built by the New York Public Library with funds provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, 11 of them designed by McKim, Mead & White. The building is 50 feet wide and features three evenly spaced arched openings on the first floor. The branch served as Harlem cultural center and hub of organizing efforts.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 2017, the branch was renamed to honor Harry Belafonte who lived near the branch. Another branch of the Library, the Schomburg Center holds Belafonte's archives.

The Central Park North–110th Street station (signed as 110 St–Central Park North on overhead signs) is a station on the IRT Lenox Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 110th Street and Lenox Avenue at the southern edge of Harlem, Manhattan. It is served by the 2 and 3 trains at all times. The 110th Street–Central Park North station was constructed for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as part of the city's first subway line, which was approved in 1900. Construction on the tunnel to the south of 110th Street started on August 30, and construction on the tunnel to the north started on October 2 of the same year. The station opened on November 23, 1904. The station's platform was lengthened in 1910. The 110th Street–Central Park North station contains one island platform and two tracks. The station was built with tile and mosaic decorations. The platform contains exits to Lenox Avenue's intersections with 110th Street and 111th Street.

Safari is a restaurant specializing in Somali cuisine located in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, New York. As of 2020, it is believed to be the only Somali restaurant in New York City.The restaurant opened in May 2015 and is located in an area called Le Petit Senegal, home to the highest concentration of West African immigrants in Manhattan. Owner Maymuuna Birjeeb was born in Kismayo, Somalia, and grew up in Sweden. Before opening Safari, she worked in banking. Decorations on the walls are relatively bare, noted by wooden wall carvings of the Osmanya alphabet. The restaurant's spices comes from Somalia.The restaurant has received positive reviews from critics. The New York Times described Safari as a "gentle introduction for diners unaccustomed to Somali cuisine." New York magazine praised "goat and the pasta, which tastes like carbonara without the bacon, are so good that it’s hard to resist wolfing them down." AM New York Metro described the restaurant as providing "diners with a rare Eastern-African culinary experience that is as authentic as one can find in the tri-state area."

On the early morning of March 27, 2020, at around 3:15 AM, a northbound 2 train of the New York City Subway caught fire as it entered the Central Park North–110th Street station in Harlem, Manhattan. The fire killed the operator, injured at least 16 others, and severely damaged the north part of the station and the train cars. MTA officials said the conductor and an MTA employee successfully evacuated passengers from the train and off the platform. Passengers and crew from a second train, behind the train with the fire, were also evacuated.

The Wadleigh High School for Girls, which was established by the NYC Board of Education in 1897, and which moved into its new building in Harlem in September 1902, was the first public high school for girls in New York City. At the time, public secondary education for girls was considered highly novel and perhaps a bit scandalous. Newspapers considered it newsworthy enough to devote many stories to describing classroom scenes of girls receiving “higher” education.