Harlem
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Harlem is a polyglot of renovated street and gentrified areas bound by the East and Hudson River running from the south of 155th Street to 110th Street on the West Side, 96th Street on the East.
This neighborhood was originally a luxury Dutch village named after Haarlem in the Netherlands. New York’s Harlem began under Peter Stuyvesant’s leadership and large farmland estates like those found in the Upper East and West Sides. After the depletion of the land’s fertile soil in the 1860’s the village of Harlem declined. By the 1880’s Harlem’s lower rent attracted African-Americans, Jewish and Italian immigrants and homosexuals. Soon these low income families created a community all there own which represented the freedom of America.
Most famous of these movements is the Harlem Renaissance. Thriving in the 1920’s when African-American literature, art, music, dance and social commentary flourished in this old neighborhood. Harlem declared itself as the center of America’s African-American culture. Harlem Renaissance leaders like Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois really brought attention uptown. Downtown wealthy residents were coming to Harlem’s nightlife and be a part of one of the most important American movements. This attention led to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and started a sociological development of racial consciousness.
The Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s brought notable social groups and leaders like Malcom X, the Black Panthers and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. By the 1990s, Harlem experienced another large gentrification with several boutiques and Starbucks on historical 125th Street.
Harlem is the home of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, First Corinthian Baptist Church, Morningside Park, National Black Theater, Harlem School of the Arts, Studio Museum in Harlem, Hotel Theresa and the legendary Apollo Theater. Artists like Ralph Cooper, Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Luther Vandross and the Jackson 5 began at the Apollo Theater.
