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The number of passengers entering the Brooklyn Bridge/Chambers Street station declined to about 7.2 million in 1963 and remained almost unchanged in 1973. [166] By 2011, the Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street station was the 29th-busiest in the system; at the time, an average of 36,350 riders entered the station every weekday. [167]
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 ...
Safari is a restaurant specializing in Somali cuisine located in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, New York. As of 2020, it is believed to be the only Somali restaurant in New York City. [1] [2] [3]
Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem was founded as a soul food restaurant located at 328 Malcolm X Boulevard, between 126th and 127th Streets, in Harlem [1] in 1962 by Sylvia Woods. [2] It has since expanded to a much larger space at its present location, and an adjacent building.
Row houses on West 138th Street designed by Bruce Price and Clarence S. Luce (2014) "Walk your horses". David H. King Jr., the developer of what came to be called "Striver's Row", had previously been responsible for building the 1870 Equitable Building, [6] the 1889 New York Times Building, the version of Madison Square Garden designed by Stanford White, and the Statue of Liberty's base. [2]
Patsy's Pizzeria was founded in what used to be the predominantly Italian neighborhood of East Harlem, or Italian Harlem, in 1933 by Pasquale "Patsy" Lanceri. [1] When it opened it was one of New York's earliest pizzerias along with Lombardi's, Totonno's and John's. [3] Patsy's claims to have originated the idea of selling pizza by the slice. [4]
In 2003, he baked a seven-foot-tall, 12-foot-long cake of the Brooklyn Bridge in honor of the structure's 120th anniversary. The cake required 20 people, five days of assembly and 22 hours of decorating. [2]
The majority of passengers used the Brooklyn Bridge station, which was only about 600 ft (180 m) away. [56] [57] [58] The Brooklyn Bridge IRT station provided both local and express service, including trains to Brooklyn, [1]: 8 [58] [59] and it was much closer to the Brooklyn Bridge streetcar terminal and the BMT's Park Row elevated station. [52]