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61 relations: A Night at the Village Vanguard, Abram Hill, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American Heritage (magazine), American Negro Theater, AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, Bill Robinson, Black people, Boarding house, Brownstone, Bruce Price, Cab Calloway, Charlie Parker, City College of New York, Colonial Revival architecture, Contrafact, Depression (economics), Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Equitable Building (Manhattan), Eubie Blake, Fletcher Henderson, Georgian architecture, Harlem, Harry Pace, Harry Wills, Historic districts in the United States, James Brown Lord, Jazz, List of numbered streets in Manhattan, Lists of New York City landmarks, Louis T. Wright, Madison Square Garden (1890), Manhattan, McKim, Mead & White, Mo' Better Blues, Museum of the City of New York, National Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan, New York City, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, New York Landmarks Conservancy, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, New York Times Building (41 Park Row), Noble Sissle, Renaissance Revival architecture, Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Single room occupancy, Sonny Rollins, Spike Lee, Stanford White, ..., Statue of Liberty, Stepin Fetchit, Terraced house, Terracotta, The New York Times, Time (magazine), Vertner Woodson Tandy, W. C. Handy, White people, Will Marion Cook, William Pickens. Expand index (11 more) »
A Night at the Village Vanguard
A Night at the Village Vanguard is a live album by tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins released on Blue Note Records in 1958.
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Abram Hill
Abram Hill, also known as Ab Hill, (January 20, 1910 – October 13, 1986) was an African-American playwright, author of On Strivers Row, Walk Hard, Talk Loud and several other plays; and a principal figure in the development of black theatre from Atlanta, Georgia.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was a Baptist pastor and an American politician, who represented Harlem, New York City, in the United States House of Representatives (1945–71).
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American Heritage (magazine)
American Heritage is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States of America for a mainstream readership.
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American Negro Theater
The American Negro Theater (ANT) was formed in Harlem on June 5, 1940, by writer Abram Hill and actor Frederick O'Neal.
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AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company
AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, also known as The Equitable, or simply AXA was founded by Henry Baldwin Hyde in 1859.
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Bill Robinson
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949) was an American tap dancer and actor, the best known and most highly paid African-American entertainer in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Black people
Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.
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Boarding house
A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, and years.
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Brownstone
Brownstone is a brown Triassic-Jurassic sandstone which was once a popular building material.
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Bruce Price
Bruce Price (12 December 1845 – 29 May 1903) was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style.
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Cab Calloway
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.
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Charlie Parker
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a public senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City.
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Colonial Revival architecture
Colonial Revival (also Neocolonial, Georgian Revival or Neo-Georgian) architecture was and is a nationalistic design movement in the United States and Canada.
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Contrafact
In jazz education, a contrafact is a musical composition consisting of a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure.
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Depression (economics)
In economics, a depression is a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies.
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Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)
Eighth Avenue is a major north-south avenue on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street.
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Equitable Building (Manhattan)
The Equitable Building is a 40-storySmith, Caleb.
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Eubie Blake
James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887February 12, 1983), known as Eubie Blake, was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music.
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Fletcher Henderson
James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson Jr. (December 18, 1897 – December 29, 1952) was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music.
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Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.
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Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Harry Pace
Harry Herbert Pace (January 6, 1884 – July 19, 1943) was an African-American music publisher and insurance executive, and the founder of Black Swan Records.
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Harry Wills
Harry Wills (May 15, 1889 – December 21, 1958) was a heavyweight boxer who three times held the World Colored Heavyweight Championship.
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Historic districts in the United States
In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant.
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James Brown Lord
James Brown Lord (26 April 1859 — 1 June 1902) was an American architect, working in a Beaux-Arts idiom, with a practice in New York City.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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List of numbered streets in Manhattan
The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets numbered from 1st to 228th, the majority of them created by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.
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Lists of New York City landmarks
These are lists of New York City Landmarks designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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Louis T. Wright
Louis Tompkins Wright (July 23, 1891 – October 8, 1952) was an American surgeon and civil rights activist.
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Madison Square Garden (1890)
Madison Square Garden was an indoor arena in New York City, the second by that name, and the second to be located at 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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McKim, Mead & White
McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm that thrived at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Mo' Better Blues
Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 musical drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed.
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Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) is a history and art museum in New York City, New York.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan
There are 557 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New York County, New York, which consists of Manhattan Island, the Marble Hill neighborhood, and adjacent smaller islands around it.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the New York City agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law.
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New York Landmarks Conservancy
The New York Landmarks Conservancy is a non-profit organization "dedicated to preserving, revitalizing, and reusing New York’s architecturally significant buildings." It provides technical assistance, project management services, grants, and loans, to owners of historic properties in New York State.
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New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) is a state agency within the New York State Executive Department charged with the operation of state parks and historic sites within the U.S. state of New York.
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New York Times Building (41 Park Row)
The New York Times Building, at 41 Park Row in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was the home of The New York Times from 1889 to 1903, when it moved to Longacre Square, now known as Times Square.
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Noble Sissle
Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921), and its hit song I'm Just Wild About Harry.
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Renaissance Revival architecture
Renaissance Revival (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a broad designation that covers many 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Grecian (see Greek Revival) nor Gothic (see Gothic Revival) but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes.
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Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)
Seventh Avenue – known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park – is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
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Single room occupancy
Single room occupancy (more commonly abbreviated to SRO) is a form of housing aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes in which, typically, single rooms without amenities such as kitchens, toilets or bathrooms, are rented out as permanent residence to individuals, within a multi-tenant building with shared kitchens, toilets or bathrooms.
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Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.
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Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.
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Stanford White
Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.
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Stepin Fetchit
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian and film actor, of Jamaican descent, considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career.
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Terraced house
In architecture and city planning, a terraced or terrace house (UK) or townhouse (US) exhibits a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls.
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Terracotta
Terracotta, terra cotta or terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth", from the Latin terra cocta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Vertner Woodson Tandy
Vertner Woodson Tandy (May 17, 1885 – November 7, 1949) was an American architect.
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W. C. Handy
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues.
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White people
White people is a racial classification specifier, used mostly for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality, and point of view, the term has at times been expanded to encompass certain persons of North African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, persons who are often considered non-white in other contexts.
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Will Marion Cook
William Mercer Cook (January 27, 1869 – July 19, 1944), better known as Will Marion Cook, was an African-American composer and violinist from the United States.
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William Pickens
William Pickens (15 January 1881 – 6 April 1954) was an African-American orator, educator, journalist, and essayist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas_Historic_District
