I entered our "field site" at 135th and Lenox around 3:00. The weather was beautiful with the temperature close to 70 for the first time this year.

I walked east on 135th after taking pictures of the four corners:

• SW: a low income tower
• NW: public library (a recent building)
• NE: Harlem Hosptial
• SE: the shopping strip that goes from 132nd to 135th with the Lenox House development behind it.

There is quite a lot of bustle in front of the shops. There were a lot of kids, probably because it is the time when the schools are let out.

South side of 135th: Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal

In the middle of the block, from a track a one-stand "farmer's market"

In the middle of the block, a wide street cutting the block to what was 134th street. At the back stands the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Community Center

Description (from Catholic Charities web site): The Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Community Center (Kennedy Center) in Harlem services about 100 children after school, approximately 125 children in the summer day camp, and 100 teenagers enrolled in the evening program. Kennedy Center has undergone and continues to undergo major renovation and transition. The Center also houses the Harlem services of the Catholic Guardian Society, the Parish and Community Outreach Social Services of Catholic Charities and a senior citizen center.

Several elderly ladies are walking away from the Center.

Harnsborough Recreation Center and two big murals

Further on, a C-Town and drugstore

at the corner of 135th and Fifth

• SW: Lenox House with shopping strip
• NW: Russwurm School - PS 197
• NE: low income housing
• SE: low income housing - "Lincoln Houses"

at the south-east corner, a flower stand and several men and children "learn how to play chess." A large playground with many children playing

I turn south on Fifth to 132nd. Lincoln Houses occupy the whole east side, with shops on the west side in the strip mall. This feels more downscale than the mall facing Lenox.

I then turn east on 132nd with, again, the Lincoln Houses on the north side, and tenements, half empty and boarded up on the south side.

The block to 130th has the back of the Moore school (CS133) with playground and plaque about Moore.

The east side is renovated.

Walking south, the block to 129th is occupied by the All Saints Catholic School and Church.

The west side is renovated brownstones

Walking south, the block to 128th is renovated. On the east side, at the corner with 128th a large, new, Addict Rehabilitation Center. Brownstones on the west side

Walking south, the block to 127th has the Schomburg school on the east side and more renovated buildings on the west, including one with "Palladia" written in big letters over the door, but no other markings.

I turn east on 126th. After a door to the Methodist church's gift shop, there is a row of brownstones on the north side with two churches.

• New Zion Baptist
• United New Church of Christ

Tenements on the south side

The corners at Park Avenue are parking lots (the 125h MetroNorth station occupies the middle of Park) .

Turning north on Park, more parking lots. A long political inscription on one of the fences

I turn west on 131st. The first block is tenements, cleared lots, a garden in one of these lots with a group of middle-aged men talking and playing cards. One homeless man with his grocery cart.

From Madison to Fifth, the Moore school on the south and renovated buildings on the north

Same from Fifth to Lenox.

The Harlem Pentecostal Assemply church in a brownstone