Harlem World Mag

A Family Affair

Harlem World Magazine is about helping our readers living their best life and style around the block around the world.

Even in Harlem’s earliest years, it was a leader. In that year, Harlem Monthly Magazine wrote in 1893:

“…it is evident to the most superficial observer that the centre of fashion, wealth, culture, and intelligence, must, in the near future, be found in the ancient and honorable village of Harlem.”

Our knowledge and passion for creating the best Harlem content started with our founder and longtime Harlem resident Danny Tisdale. Tisdale is an award-winning visual artist, who began in publishing as a “newspaper boy” in Watts, CA, where he was born and raised. He worked on his college newspaper, before graduating from art school and driving 3,000 miles to Harlem. He found his first job in publishing working at Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, and numerous other publications before founding Harlem World Magazine in 2003. Tisdale served as an active member on Harlem’s Community Board #10 and held numerous sub-committee seats from Arts & Culture to Economic Development and Empowerment Zone, Land Use, and Education. He was appointed to Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger’s Youth Committee. Tisdale is an award-winning visual artist and founder of the National Visual Artists Guild (NVAG), the first union for visual ars in the United States and his art studio Tisdale Studio.

James Baldwin,  Harry Belafonte, George Carlin, Sammy Davis Jr., Tito Puente, Ving Rhames, Sonny Rollins, J.D. Salinger, and Tupac Shakur are just a few of the luminaries who were born or grew up in Harlem. And while the neighborhood did decline after World War II, it is now undergoing something of a second Harlem Renaissance. Actor Neil Patrick Harris lives with his husband and kids near Morningside Park; chef Marcus Samuelsson lives just a few blocks from his acclaimed Red Rooster restaurant. Emmy winner S. Epatha Merkerson maintains a home in Harlem. Jonathan Franzen lived in a studio on 125th Street while writing “The Corrections,” which won the National Book Award in 2001, and fellow best-selling novelist Richard Price still lives in a Harlem brownstone. And Maya Angelou spent part of the last decade of her life in her five-story brownstone at 58 West 120th Street. The 5,640-square-foot home is said to be the neighborhood’s largest single-family dwelling; it sold in 2016 for $4 million. Source:  Warburg Realty