BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Paul Lomax (@PaulLomaxPhoto) For this week’s Throwback, I chose one of my fave posts, Daily Grind: Jason Minter & the Indian Road Café. First of all, Jason is such an awesome guy and…
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BY Lauren Dockett Photography by Briana E. Heard (@beheardphoto) I am in the realest place in Manhattan. A spot at the absolute top of the island where landscaping and development stop and in a dissonant fusion, city and wild…
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BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Before Uptown became the initial stopping point for immigrants from all over the globe, Inwood Hill was home to some of the world’s richest families. Folks such as Macy’s founder Isador Straus and Elisha Brooks,…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Did you know that on the location where Columbia University Medical Center (165th Street and Broadway) now stands there was once a baseball stadium that was the clubhouse for the team that would go on…
BY Led Black This is a rare audio recording of Grandmaster Flash & The 4 MC’s at the Audubon Ballroom on December 23rd, 1978. A short time after, Raheim joins the group and it becomes Grandmaster Flash & The…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) July 1992 As soon as we stepped out of the 1 & 9 train station at 191st street, I could feel the electricity in the air. This was not unusual in the Washington Heights of…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) My pops likes to refer to Father’s day as “el día de los perros” (The Day of the Dogs) because fathers don’t get the same kind of love and respect as mothers do. With that in…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) When I was a kid growing up in Washington Heights, NYC in the mid to late 80’s, Graffiti was all the rage. The first thing Graffiti writers would say to one another when they met…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) My life-long addiction to sneakers began innocently enough with Kangaroos. You remember Roos; those were the sneakers that had a pocket with a zipper on the side. My friends and I would all keep a…