Rucker Park
unfortunately the street ball league was not in season, nor was it warm enough on a weekday morning to see streeballers out in this prolific court. legends have played here and often nba players pay their respects here when their in town. we could only imagine.
Baron Davis - Streetball (Rucker Park)







Harlem long known as a major African American cultural and business center. in the 20th century it was heavly associated with black culture, but also crime and poverty, it is now experiencing a social and economic renaissance through gentrification in the late 1990s. This was driven by changing federal and city policies, including fierce crime-fighting and a concerted effort to develop the retail corridor on 125th Street. Im glad we stayed here, the history is off the hizz here.
Harlem is safe. We were walk home and around the neighbourhood in the earlier mornings from the City. people are friendly, I could ask for directions and they were never shy to have a conversation. everywhere you walk people try to sell you every thing on the streets - newport cigarette, underwear, perfume, shirts, food stamps etc…its all about the hustle on 125th Street.



the muslim population here is large and the religion is popular since Malcolm X

Nation of islam is slowly merging with mainstream islam here


these cruddy homes go for around a million.

Martin Luther King Jr everywhere

Set From American Gangster

125th street


ATMOS


Bill Clinton’s NY office is in harlem


The Market

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

Upper Harlem



This Car was NOT empty.





watchingAmerican Gangster where is all happen

harlem size

THE NBA STORE kicks ass. we spent nearly 3hrs there by accident. all team merchandise, games, memorbila….




Yao ming is bigger than me

Statue of Liberty is like, wow. but i did’t know that you needed to book 48hr in advance to climb up her arm.

shes got a nice back

huge erection

he looked like my father


not a nice day :-S

stupid/awesome

Ellis island immigration museum - if only i had ancestors that migrated thorugh NY..then i could look them up in the registry DB like in that movie Hitch
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waiting for my immigration mental and health tests




Ground Zero
…damn its silencing here. its a sad feeling. its hard to beleive what happened becuase everything is all cleaned up, you can really appreciate how the city has recovered from 9-11…the one building however is being demolished floor by floor since its too hard to demolish the whole thing at once.
under construction



taking a peek @ construction





this man is a great educator - tells the story of 9-11

he plays The Star-Spangled Banner on loop

The church that housed the volunteers during the ordeal





gift from UK to US in memory of 9-11
