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A 13-piece salsa band heralded the unveiling of Larry Harlow Way, named in honor of the Jewish New Yorker who left an ...
The honorary street sign for Globetrotters Way is located at the corner of Pershing Road and Giles Avenue in Bronzeville, ...
Bill Robinson, the American tap dancer and entertainer renowned for his stairway dance, sharing a joke with a friend at the Trocadero Café in Paris circa 1927. Tenor Roland Hayes, from Boston, ...
West End's Saville Theatre set for return of live shows after 55 years - The Saville Theatre was transformed into a ...
Harlem in the 1930’s – the Golden Age of places like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom, honky tonk dives along Lenox Avenue, rent parties, stride piano players and that new beat ...
That global perspective is central to how she sees her role in New York — a city that, for all its pace and pressure, still finds space for cultural surprises. “I was sitting in a bar in Harlem a ...
West Harlem environmental justice organization WE ACT for Environmental Justice joined three other organizations on March 31 in suing New York state, which they claim has failed to meet key provisions ...
(Kerry Burke/New York Daily News) A man was shot dead in ... a building in the Manhattanville Houses on W. 126th St. in West Harlem, cops said. NYPD on the scene where a 34-year-old man was ...
Discovered at Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom, the Harlem native became a key member of the professional performing group known as Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, impressing audiences worldwide with her ...
People across New York State want to make the places where they live and work more sustainable—but they don’t always know where to start. The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) ...
The former Lasker Rink and Pool area at the park's north end, a landmark since the 1960s, is now the Davis Center at the Harlem Meer ... according to ABC7 New York. "Standing outside the ...