Harlem Street Signs goods there to mix with coffee

there to mix with coffee spills

New York City started phasing out trolley operations in the 1930s

Many pages haven’t been seen in decades

you can still hear Frank Sinatra singing in the grand Hotel Astor as he did from 1940-1942

Harlem Street Signs goods there to mix with coffeeThis image from 1987 highlights the street sign added that year to a segment of Sixth Avenue north of Central Park honoring slain civil rights leader Malcolm X. It was shot by Don Hogan Charles, the first Black photographer to be hired by The New York Times and a figure widely regarded for his poignant images of the civil rights movement and of everyday life in New York. A lifelong New Yorker and longtime resident of Harlem, Charles photographed