Harlem’s Emergency Preparedness Event will be held this Saturday, Sept 21st, 11am-2pm. 

They’ll be lots of events for adults and children

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Ebay has a rare piece of ephemera for sale, a matchbook from a Harlem coal supplier.

The detail 4458, 4457, and 4459 HARlem are phone numbers. The “HAR” functioned much like an area code and told the operator that you wanted 4458 in the Harlem exchange, for example.

Today the location of Dobbins Coal Co. is where the Madison Avenue Bridge heads over the river to The Bronx:

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