harlem

     

Harlem is a neighborhoo in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African-American cultural and business center. After being associated for much of the twentieth century with crime and poverty, it is now experiencing social and economic gentrification.

Trivia about harlem

  • African-American writer Chester Himes exploded with "A Rage in" this section of Manhattan
  • Langston Hughes described this area of NYC as a melting pot "of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum"
  • The son of Jamaican immigrants, Colin was born in this section of Manhattan in 1937
  • Toni Morrison's "Jazz" is set primarily in this Manhattan neighborhood in the 1920s
  • In the 1950s, Chester Himes moved to Paris, where he wrote murder mysteries like "Cotton Comes to" here
  • James Baldwin called this "the only human part of New York", but left it anyway
  • "Fete Noire" was first presented in 1971 by the fledgling dance theatre of this Manhattan area
  • Black photographer James Van Der Zee chronicled life in this NYC section for more than a half century
  • Arthur Mitchell & Karel Shook co-founded the Dance Theatre of this place
  • This New York neighborhood is home to the National Black Theater as well as the famed Apollo
  • African-American writer Chester Himes exploded with "A Rage in" this section of Manhattan
  • In July 2001 Cicely Tyson emceed a celebration welcoming Bubba to this area of Manhattan
  • In 2003 the dance theatre of this N.Y. neighborhood presented the world premiere of "St. Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet"
  • This neighborhood is bounded on the south by 110th St. & on the north by the small river of the same name
  • Neighborhood mentioned in title of this tune, Mike Hammer's TV theme: