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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard ( Lenox Avenue ) between West 135th and 136th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City , it has ...
The Africa Center, formerly known as the Museum for African Art and before that as the Center for African Art, is a museum located at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile.
HERE Arts Center is a New York City off-off-Broadway producing and presenting home, founded in 1993. Their location includes two stages specializing in hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media and puppetry in addition to art exhibition space and a cafe.
The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903.He founded and endowed the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, and it opened in 1922, in a building at 155th Street and Broadway, part of the Audubon Terrace complex, in the Sugar Hill neighborhood, just south of Washington Heights. [2]
Situated at a former Shaker colony, [1] the facility was established in 1896 on 1,900 acres (770 ha). [2] Its inspiration was the colony at Bielefeld, Westphalia, Germany. [3] [4] Craig Colony was situated 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Buffalo and 40 miles (64 km) south of Rochester.
The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, generally known as NYU Skirball, is an 850-seat theater at 566 LaGuardia Place in Manhattan, New York, owned by New York University. It was named after philanthropist Jack H. Skirball. The theatre was completed in October 2003 and cost approximately $40 million. [1]
The Margaret Sanger Clinic is a historic building at 17 West 16th Street in Manhattan, New York City.Built in 1846, it is notable as the location of the Clinical Research Bureau, where birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger and her successors provided contraceptive services and conducted research from 1930 to 1973. [3]
The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) was founded in 1976 by Dr. Marta Moreno Vega. [2] She was the director of CCCADI from 1976 to 2018. In January 2018, Vega became an advisor to the Board of Directors, with Margarita Rosa taking on the role of interim director of CCCADI while a search for a new executive director is taking place.