I got the 3 subway at the 145th street station. I walked south to 139th. With projects on the east side and pre-war buildings on the west side

• Graham-Windham Harlem Child Care Center
• Savoy Park housing project with plaque about the "historical Savoy ballroom"

Around 140th street an elderly lady asks "You must be a tourist" I do not respond right away (I was looking away) and she recasts the statemet as a question, louder. I say "yes." "Where from?" "HV: France" "good" "HV (smiling and pointing at the sky) it's a great day" "right."

I turn east on 139th. New constructions on the south side and on Fifth.

I turn south on Fifth and then west on 138th

• Greater Harlem Nursing Home (south)
• William McCray Playground (north)
• Union Congregational Church (south)
• St. Mark's the Evangelist Catholic (north)

• Salvation Army at the corner with Lenox. It occupies the whole block on the east side of Lenox to 137th street

Across Lenox one enters the world of Abbyssinian and its Development Corporation. Some new building is being built.

• Abbyssinian Tot Lot
• Annie Newsome Headstart Center

South on Powell and then east on 137th to Fifth

• Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ("Mother A.M.E. Zion Church"). Note the "do not take picture in sanctuary sign in French, German and Spanish
• Elizabeth Langley Garden (Green Thumb) (north)
• Rendall Memorial Presbyterian Church (north)

West on 136 through Harlem Hospital and to Douglas

• Universal Temple of Spiritual Truth
• The way of the cross church
• rebuilt new luxury condos
• James Varick Community Center
• New York Urban League
• Beulah Wesleyan Methodist Church
• Brownstone for sale

South on Douglas

• Temple Healing From Heaven (at the SW corner of Douglas and 136th)
• First Ebenezer Baptist Church (in boarded up building in the grittiest part of Douglas)
• New Covenant Live Christian Center (in store front in relative recent building)

• Clayton Williams Community Garden "A member of Manhattan Land Trust" "Permanently protected since 1990" "The trust for public land"