Harlem History
Photographer Peter Cooper took this photograph on Lenox Avenue of the historic jazz club the Lenox Lounge this morning while walking by. Continue reading
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
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Tagged 125th Street, Business, Caribbean, Harlem, Lenox Lounge, New York City, Red Lobster, small business
The 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
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 (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
Posted in Harlem history, Harlem literature, Harlem renaissance
Tagged 580 St. Nicholas Avenue, arts, Breakfast Party for Langston Hughes, Charles Johnson, Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Esther Popel, Ethel Ray, Guadalupe River State Park, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Hubert T. Delaney, Jessie Fauser, John Coltrane, Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, Lenox Avenue, Lenox Lounge, Literature, Marie Johnson, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Regina Anderson (Andrews), Rudolph Fisher, United States
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
Posted in HArlem Jazz
Tagged Harlem, Lenox Avenue, Lenox Lounge, Minton, Minton's Playhouse, New York City, Thelonious Monk, Time Warner
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
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
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Tagged alvin reed, billie holiday, Community board 10, Franco the Great, Harlem, Lenox Lounge, Miles Davis, New York, Notar, Notar Jazz Club, Richard Notar, Studio 54