Harlem is the most famous African American neighborhood in the United States. Harlem has played a very important role for black history, black culture and the…
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Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Bed-Stuy, is New York City’s largest African American neighborhood. During and after World War II, many African Americans, who migrated from the southern…
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Fort Greene has long been known as a center for African American life and business. Spike Lee grew up in Fort Greene and his movie…
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Jamaica recently achieved world-wide fame as the place where rapper 50 Cent and LL Cool J grew up. Even though the area is not well-known…
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Hamilton Heights is a neighborhood in the western part of Harlem. Together with the neighborhood of Sugar Hill, the area has been known as the…
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Clinton Hill is a beautiful residential neighborhood located between Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Once it was a very wealthy neighborhood, by the 1880s and 1890s,…
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