With the publication of our book Playing the Numbers drawing near, I’ve added some more pages explaining the game: how…
The Bromley Real Estate map overlay is now complete. Andrew Wilson and his helpers at the ACL have replaced those…
A West Indian, born in 1888, who arrived in Harlem in 1917, Morgan Thompson* was convicted of assault in 1928…
Divorce raids were a staple of the Amsterdam News throughout the 1920s, and featured a cross section of respectable Harlem,…
Prostitutes were among the blacks who migrated from the San Juan Hill neighborhood to Harlem. As early as 1919, according…
Our article “This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s” has been accepted for publication…
My article, “Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race, and Prostitution, 1910-1930,” is now available in the May 2009 issue of the…
Fuller Long* was a seventeen-year-old African American boy placed on probation in 1928, after having been convicted of having sexual…
Churches were the most prominent black places and institutions in Harlem. They made a powerful impression on visitors to the…
The map of Numbers arrests is currently one of the Featured Maps on the Digital Harlem site; simply click on…
