Harlem

[ hahr-luhm ]

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noun

a section of New York City, in the NE part of Manhattan.
a tidal river in New York City, between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, which, with Spuyten Duyvil Creek, connects the Hudson and East rivers. 8 miles (13 km) long.

Harlem

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noun

a district of New York City, in NE Manhattan: now largely a Black ghetto

Harlem

Neighborhood of Manhattan .

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Notes

During the 1920s, Harlem was the site of a great upsurge in black literature, music, and theater known as the Harlem Renaissance .

Mostly populated by African-Americans, Harlem has long been a center of black culture .

The area now contains a large Puerto Rican population and, after a period of economic decay, has experienced a revitalization.

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She was also a paid singer at the famous Cotton Club of Harlem.

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Take his youthful days at the Apollo, an era when one legendary artist after another made their way to the vaunted Harlem venue.

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So much of what Muss learned about entertaining crowds came from his father, who famously staged his own Harlem Globetrotter-style warm-ups.

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COVID-19 shuttered his next project, the Harlem Food Hall, but then Smalls received an unexpected call from Her Excellency, the sheikh of Dubai’s daughter, which led to his work on Alkebulan.

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The A$AP Mob is a hip-hop collective founded in 2006 in Harlem by a group of high school friends in New York.

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