Harlem Street Signs featured-sports for nearly half a century

for nearly half a century

“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

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some were poignant and all were proof that fact is stranger than fiction

Harlem Street Signs featured-sports for nearly half a centuryThis 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