Build the Block Tonight

The 25th Precinct’s Sector “C” will be having a Build the Block meeting tonight at Ginjan Cafe, at 5:00 PM.

Come out to raise concerns, ask for more patrols, note problems or issues, etc.

Park & Tilford Building

1908

Park and Tilford was one of New York’s most prestigious purveyors of fine spirits, choice groceries, and tobacco. The rich of Harlem shopped here in the 1910s, and a teenage Henry Roth (later to become an acclaimed writer) worked as a delivery boy. Delivering groceries throughout the neighborhood, he observed that Harlem was a divided community: white gentiles shopped primarily on 125th Street, Jews on 116th Street, and African Americans on 135th Street.