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The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", [3] is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue), in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City.
West 147th–149th Streets Historic District is a national historic district in Harlem, New York, New York. It consists of 60 contributing buildings; 58 tenements, one school, and one stable built between 1894 and 1905. With the exception of the stable, all of the buildings are five or six stories tall, all with brick facades.
Manhattan Avenue–West 120th–123rd Streets Historic District is a national historic district in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.It consists of 113 contributing residential rowhouses built between 1886 and 1896.
A map of Upper Manhattan, with Greater Harlem highlighted.Harlem proper is the neighborhood in the center. Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan.The three neighborhoods comprising the greater Harlem area—West, Central, and East Harlem—stretch from the Harlem River and East River to the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington ...
Sugar Hill is a National Historic District in the Harlem and Hamilton Heights [3] neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City, [4] bounded by West 155th Street to the north, West 145th Street to the south, Edgecombe Avenue to the east, and Amsterdam Avenue to the west. [5]
Harlem has many townhouses, such as these in the Mount Morris Historic District. As the building stock decayed, landlords converted many buildings into "single-room occupancies", or SROs, essentially private homeless shelters. In many cases, the income from these buildings could not support the fines and city taxes charged to their owners, or ...
The Boys Choir of Harlem was established in the neighborhood in 1968. [9] In 1973, the name of the land was changed to Marcus Garvey Park. This was in honor of the international Pan-African movement leader. In 1973, a part of the current district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
Location of New York County in New York. There are 586 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 on the mainland north of the Harlem River Ship Canal, and adjacent smaller islands around it.