NYC Sentinel

Mart 125: Changes afoot for a long abandoned building

By Spencer Bailey Filmmaker Rachelle Gardner captures the problems of Mart 125, which housed a public market on 125th Street, in “Mart 125: The American Dream,” a 75-minute, nine-year work-in-progress documentary film that she began screening this year. For the building, abandoned for nearly a decade, there are also plans afoot.

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Harlem residents know where their bread is buttered

Law & Order SVU shoots all over Harlem. And when it does, the crowds huddle around the set to watch Ice-T’s Detective Stabler and Mariska Hargitay’s Detective Benson catch crooks. The show shot a scene near my friend’s apartment on Claremont Avenue a few weeks ago. This week, SVU shot in central Harlem, on 125th [...]

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