Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The most dangerous part of Harlem was the "Bradhurst section" between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Edgecombe, from 139th Street through 155th. In 1991, this region was described in the New York Times as follows: "Since 1970, an exodus of residents has left behind the poor, the uneducated, the unemployed. Nearly two-thirds of the ...
Like the Bronx, Harlem and its gangsters have a strong link to hip hop, rap, and R&B culture in the United States, and many successful rappers in the music industry came from gangs in Harlem. [25] Gangsta rap , which has its origins in the late 1980s, often has lyrics that are "misogynistic or that glamorize violence", glamorizing guns, drugs ...
COVID-19 pandemic September 11, 2001 PS General Slocum Battle of Long Island TWA Flight 800 1953 smog Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire Great Blizzard of 1888 Hague Street explosion Second Orange Riot Hurricane Sandy Ninth Avenue derailment Lexington Avenue explosion 2006 plane crash Great Fire of New York (1835) 2007 steam explosion Harlem riot of 1964 US Airways Flight 1549
Neighborhoods that were once considered dangerous are now much safer. Violent crime in the city has dropped by three quarters in the twelve years ending in 2005 with the murder rate at its lowest then level since 1963 with 539 murders that year, for a murder rate of 6.58 per 100,000 people, compared to 2,245 murders in 1990. [ 202 ]
An explosion destroyed two buildings and killed at least seven people in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on Wednesday morning, and many are attributing the tragedy to natural gas. Federal ...
Immediately after World War II, New York City became known as one of the world's greatest cities. [1] However, after peaking in population in 1950, the city began to feel the effects of suburbanization brought about by new housing communities such as Levittown, a downturn in industry and commerce as businesses left for places where it was cheaper and easier to operate, an increase in crime ...
A large quantity of dynamite, and a lot of guns in a backpack which was apparently being used to construct a bomb to blow up John D. Rockefeller's Tarrytown home, exploded prematurely at a new seven-story model tenement on Lexington Avenue in East Harlem, Manhattan, killing three conspirators and another renter who was not part of the bomb plot ...
Althea Gibson made history by breaking barriers in tennis. Now she is getting a street renamed in her honor.