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The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Lenox Avenue w
Dizzy Gillespie's Orchestra on the Savoy bandstand, between 1946 and 1948
Lithograph of the Savoy created for the New York City Works Progress Administration, 1935–1943
Dizzy Gillespie, playing the trumpet at the Savoy, 1947
Plaque commemorating the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York City
Harlem
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Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th S
Savoy Ballroom
…The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Lenox Avenue was the main thoroughfare through upper Harlem. Poet Langston Hughes calls it the "Heartbeat of…
Apartment buildings next to Morningside Park in Harlem
One of the paths in Morningside Park, which was constructed during the late 19th century
14 (right) and 16 (left) St. Nicholas Place, in Sugar Hill
Adriano Espaillat