The Harlem-based historic preservation group, Whereas We Are Nonetheless Right here (WWSH), has launched a brand new cellular app designed to assist customers discover New York Metropolis’s most historic, Black history-rich neighborhood.
WWSH’s free app known as “Indicators of the Instances.” The GPS-enabled app, developed in partnership with the software program improvement firm HubSpire, was inaugurated final weekend throughout a press convention held on the Sugar Hill Youngsters’s Museum.
“We’re thrilled to introduce this app, which brings our historic markers to life and gives a deeper understanding of pivotal eras in Harlem’s historical past,” stated WWSH founder Karen D. Taylor. “It’s like having Harlem in your pocket.”
“Indicators of the Instances” guides customers to 24 historic markers all through Harlem. The app was created to spotlight Harlem’s historical past as a cultural hub for African diaspora tradition.
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Taylor instructed the AmNews: “Whereas We Are Nonetheless Right here hopes that the app will entice younger individuals, all over center and highschool. One other viewers consists of vacationers. The app could be very straightforward to make use of, and folks gained’t get misplaced, as a result of GPS is embedded in it, and it maps out all of the put in Indicators of the Instances markers. It even lets you already know what markers are close by. The app additionally options biographies, historic pictures, and typically, video. We anticipate hundreds of customers who will patronize our app [along with] sponsors corresponding to shops, eating places, and cultural establishments.”
In a press assertion, WWSH notes that, “The marker undertaking — conceived by Lehman School Africana Research Professor Emeritus William Seraile; Marline A. Martin, former director of the LeRoy Neiman Gallery; and Whereas We Are Nonetheless Right here — was initiated in 2020. Though delayed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, the undertaking reached close to completion in 2024, with one remaining marker scheduled for set up, following website building, by the tip of this yr.”
