I got the 3 subway at the 148th street station. It was around 3:15 pm and the day was cloudy and quite cool for June (upper 60s). I started walking south on Powell.

The area is a world of housing developments and 7 stories building from the early 20th century. Gritty

I turned east on 145th with the 7 stories building on the north side and commercial low buildings on the south side. Still gritty

On the south side between Powell and Douglas:

• Church of God
• Crown of Life Love Ministries
• Union Baptist Church
• St. Paul Community Church
• Phase: Piggy Bank Incorporated "We help people grow" Youth Intervention and Development
• Phase: Piggy Bank Incorporated "We help people grow" Family Health Center

After crossing Douglas and walking up hill, new condos on both sides of 145h

After crossing Bradhurst, the Jackie Robinson Park on the north side (with the JR recreation center)

Between Edcombe and Convent:

• Mount Zyon Lutheran Church and its "School on the Hill" (very run down buildings)
• Convent Baptist Church (at the SE corner of 145 & Convent)

Walking south on Convent: visually the best area I have yet seen in Harlem with large brownstones on each side, each with a front garden, old leafy trees arching over the whole avenue. I run across two groups of young Chinese American (?) HS or college students.

• Mayfield home of the United Ushers Benevolent League
• Hamilton's house
• St. Luke's Episcopal at the NE corner with 141st

I walk east (and down!) 141st with a building from the City College Campus on the south and then St. Nicholas park.

Across St. Nicholas

• St James Presbyterian (NE corner)

Across Edgecombe on 141st before Douglass

• and abandoned pentecostal church building
• Church of the Meek Baptist
• and occupying the whole block south, PS123 "The Mahalia Jackson Academy"

Edgcombe and 140th

• Mt. Calvary United Methodist

Back on Douglass and then 141st east: large housing development (the Drew-Hamilton Houses) on the north (occupying most of the blocks from Douglass to Powell and through 143rd.

• St. Charles Borromeo (with its large school facing 142nd)

On Powell I turn north and then west on 142nd

• Mt. Calvary Baptist

On Douglas, as part of the DH project:

• DH Learning Center of the Children's Aid Society: daycare ad after school programs (at 141st)
• DH Health Center (at 142nd)
• First Baptist Church (in a building on the West side of Douglas)

I turn east on 143rd, with the DH project on the south and 7 story buildings on the north.

PS 194 on the south side

Almost at the corner with Powell, the "Teen Center of the Harlem Children Zone." As I was starting to photograph it, two young men (teenagers?) that were going to walk in front stopped and pulled back behing a large SUV. I took the picture and then noticed a group milling at the corner, and other, smaller, groups at the other corners. It also looked that there were people in the various SUVs parked there. It felt much more like the Harlem of the movies than almost any other time/place I have been to. As I walked south on Powell, it came to me that schools must have been going out as I walked and that the increase in mid children/young adult I am crossing must have to do with this. This block and the next are back to the gritty side of Harlem.

Continuing on 143rdt to Lenox

• St. Thomas Liberal Catholic Church (north side)
• New Mt. Calvary (south side)

On Lenox, the large projects on the east side, regular buildings on the west with

• Frederick Samuel Community Center
• Harlem Child Care Center

East on 140th with the Fred Samuel Playground on the south side, and the PS139 senior citizen building (clearly a recycled school)

• New Mt. Zion Baptist Church (north side)

South on Powell with two examples of ruins (in one case there is even a rather large tree growing up out of the roof) but also, on the side streets, city banners proclaiming the Abyssinian neighborhood on the east side and the St. Nicholas Historic District on the west side.

• Abyssinian Baptist Church (south side of 138th)

the Strivers' Row area with very fancy brownstones.