Harlem Street Signs details This New York Times poster

This New York Times poster is inspired by the newspaper's first brand campaign in a decade

” published July 14

anniversary

New York Times headlines the next day declared

beer was legalized

Harlem Street Signs details This New York Times posterThis image from 1987 highlights the street sign added that year to a segment of Sixth Avenue north of Central Park honoring slain civil rights leader Malcolm X. It was shot by Don Hogan Charles, the first Black photographer to be hired by The New York Times and a figure widely regarded for his poignant images of the civil rights movement and of everyday life in New York. A lifelong New Yorker and longtime resident of Harlem, Charles photographed