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Construction Has Started On The Historic Lenox Lounge

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Photographer Peter Cooper took this photograph on Lenox Avenue of the historic jazz club the Lenox Lounge this morning while walking by.  Continue reading

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Harlem Business Alliance to Use $700K Grant to Support Small Businesses

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After a series of small, black-owned businesses closed in Harlem recently, many asked where was the help to keep these shops open as national retailers continue to flood the neighborhood. Continue reading

Photo Of The Day: ‘Follow The Sign On 125th Street’

harlem 125th sttreet 2013The Follow The Sign on 125th Street, the image was taken with a Smartphone on Friday, February 1st, 2013, at 1 pm on the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. Continue reading

Sixth Avenue, Harlem, NY 1830 – 1910

MNY220042We think this photograph is around Mount Morris Park in the Sixth Avenue taken around the 1830′s. Continue reading

Col. Kopper’s ‘Oldest House’ in Harlem 1924

In 1924, if you looked down 124th Street and 3rd Avenue, you would have seen the beautiful residence of Col. Kopper’s. The house was a combination wood and cement, round and square windows and by some considered the “Oldest House” in Harlem. Continue reading

Overturned Car, 145th Street St., Lenox Avenue, 1917

An overturned car  near the 145th Street Bridge ramp at Lenox Avenue, on July 10, 1917 (Eugene de Salignac Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives

This is a photograph of an overturned car, near the 145th Street Bridge ramp at Lenox Avenue in Central Harlem on July 10, 1917. Continue reading

Langston Hughes Breakfast Party in Harlem, 1925 (Photos And Video)

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Langston Hughes (second from left) with guests at a breakfast party for him hosted by room mates Regina Anderson-Andrews, Luella Tucker and Ethel Ray at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem 1925. Continue reading

Richard Parsons Time To Revive Harlem Jazz Spot

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This old dive in Harlem has been shuttered for about as long as it had been open. Yet Minton’s Playhouse will always be known as the cradle of bebop, where the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker jammed into the night. Continue reading

Lenox Lounge: The Fat Lady Never Sang

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Despite numerous reports to the contrary, the Lenox Lounge brand will continue without skipping a beat.  Tyreta Foster, Esq. and Angélica Thomas, Esq. of Foster Lynch & Thomas, LLC negotiated in earnest throughout the 2012 Holiday Season … Continue reading

New Name, New Owner For The Old Lenox Lounge

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When a new jazz club opens in the space that Harlem’s Lenox Lounge has occupied for more than 70 years, it won’t be much different from what it is now. Continue reading