Harlem Landmarks

Question 1

The Apollo theater was built 1913 and in 1983 both the exterior and interior of the building were designated as New York City landmarks. Where is it located?

Answer 1

253 W. 125th St. between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard

Question 2

Abyssinian Baptist Church was built in 19 22–23. It was designated a landmark on July 13, 1993. Where is it located?

Answer 2

132 W. 138th St. between Adam Clayton Powell Junior Boulevard and Lenox Avenue

Question 3

Atlah (all the land anointed holy) worldwide missionary Church was founded June 10, 1957. And is probably better known for its controversial Messages posted on its letter board.

Answer 3

36 W. 123rd St. and Malcolm X Blvd.

between 122 Street and 123 street

Question 4

Sylvia’s is a famous so food restaurant that was founded in 1962 by Sylvia woods where is it located?

Answer 4

West Harlem 328 Lenox Ave.126th and 127th streets.

Question 5

Schomburg Center for research and black culture was established in 1905. (Research library(Where is it located?

Answer 5

515 Malcolm X Blvd. between 135 and 136 streets

Question 6

Astor Row is the name given to 28 townhouses that were among the first speculative town houses built in the area. Built between 1880 in 1883 and three spurts. On land that had been purchased by John Jacob Astor in 1844. For $10,000. Where is it located?

Answer 6

The south side of West 1 30th St. between fifth Avenue and Lenox.

Question 7

Bushman steps

Answer 7

155th St.and Bradhurst & lead up to the Harlem River Drive and the old Coogan’s Bluff

Question 8

The Polo grounds was the name of three stadiums in upper Manhattan, New York. Mainly used for professional baseball & football from 1880 to 1963.
In 1961, the city of New York decided to claim the land under eminent domain. The site is now home to the polo grounds towers a public housing projects opened in 1968. Where is it located?

Answer 8

West 1 55th St., Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Harlem River Drive in Washington Heights, upper Manhattan.

Question 9

The cotton club a New York City night club, was first located in Harlem on 142nd and Lenix Avenue from 1923 to 1935. Then for a brief period 1936 to 1940 it was in the mid town theater district. The club operated most notably during America’s Prohibition era. The club was a whites only establishment that would featured many of the best black entertainers including cab Calloway, duke Ellington, Count Bassi, Fats Waller. Where is it located?

Answer 9

656 W. 1 25th St. between Riverside Drive and St Claire Pl

Question 10

City college of the University of New York was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States and is considered the flagship campus of the CUNY public university system. Establish in 1847. This college has to his credits 10 winners of the Nobel prize among its alumni. Where is it located?

Answer 10

Beginning at 1 38th St. and convent Avenue and extending to Saint Nicholas Terrace.

Question 11

Duke Ellington circle is a traffic circle named after the legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington. It connects neighborhoods of Spanish. Where is it located?

Answer 11

North east corner of Central Park at the foot of fifth Avenue and 110th Street.

Question 12

Dunbar apartments is a complex of buildings in the Harlem neighborhood in Manhattan. They were built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. From 1926 to 1928 to provide housing for African-Americans, first projects of its kind. Designed by architect Andrew J.Thomas and were named in honor of the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. complex consist of six separate buildings with 511 apartments and occupies an entire city block. Where is it located?

Answer 12

West 149th and 150 St. between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.

(At one point it was also home to WEB Dubois, Paul Robison, it’s a Philip Randolph, Bill Bojangles Robinson and explorer Matthew Henson.)

Question 13

Fort Clinton in Central Park was in 1814 stone and earthworks fortification on a rocky escarpment.

Answer 13

Near 107 St. and W. 5th Ave.

Question 14

Nutter’s Battery was an 1814 earth and wood fortification near Harlem Meer (Dutch for Lake). Where is it located?

Answer 14

West Dr., New York in Central Park

Question 15

First Corinthians Baptist Church. Was organized in 1933 and if you faithful believers gathered in the home of mother Sloan.

Answer 15

1912 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. on the corner of 116th St.

Question 16

Frederick Douglass circle is a traffic circle. The traffic circle features a complex paving pattern that includes traditional African American quilt designs. Harlem based artist Algernon Miller design the paving. Where is it located?

Answer 16

Northwest corner of Central Park at the intersection of eighth Avenue and 110 St. in Manhattan New York

Question 17

Graham court is a story apartment building commissioned by William Waldorf Astor, designed by architect’s Clinton and Russell. And constructed in 1899–1901. As part of the great Harlem real estate boom. Where is it located?

Answer 17

It runs the full 7th Avenue / Adam Clayton Powell Blvd and is between 116th and 117th St.

Question 18

Hamilton Grange National Memorial is a national park service site in St. Nicholas
Park Manhattan New York. Preserves the relocated home of founding father Alexander Hamilton. Where is it located?

Answer 18

414 W. 141 street between St. Nicholas & Hamilton Terrace.

Question 19

Hamilton Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of Manhattan. It lies between Manhattanville to the south and Washington Heights to the north. It contains the sub neighborhood of Sugar Hill. Hamilton Heights is the home of city of New York college, dance theater of Harlem, the Harlem school of the arts and Aaron Davis Hall. Where is it located?

Answer 19

Hamilton Heights encompasses from W.135th to W.155th St. And covers everything from Saint Nicholas to Riverside Drive.

Question 20

Harbor Conservatory for the performing arts is a performance center in Spanish Harlem, New York. Where is it located?

Answer 20

The corner of E. 104th St. and Fifth Avenue

Near museum mile with Museum of city of New York at 103rd

Question 21

The Harlem children’s zone is a nonprofit organization for property stricken children and family living in Harlem. Free support in the form of parenting workshops, and the preschool program, three public charter schools, and child oriented health programs for thousands of children and families. Where is it located?

Answer 21

E 25 E. 110th St. (On the corner of Madison Ave) between Madison and fifth Avenue

Question 22

Highland Hospital is a 272 bed public municipally own teaching hospital affiliated with Columbia University. Where is it located?

Answer 22

506 Malcolm X Blvd. it runs from Lenox Ave to 5th Ave. and runs from 135th St. to 138th St.

Question 23

The Harlem YMCA. Intended primarily for the use of African-American at a time when YMCAs were whites only.

Where is it located?

Answer 23

180 W. 1 35th St. between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. and Malcolm X Blvd.

Question 24

Hooper fountain. Where is it located?

Answer 24

Between 155th St. & Edgecomb Ave

Question 25

The Teresa hotel was a vibrant center of African American life in the area and city. The 13 story hotel was built in 1912– 13 by German born stockbroker Gustavus Sidenberg whose wife the hotel is named after. In its heyday it was known as the Waldorf of Harlem. Where is it located?

Answer 25

2082–96 Adam Clayton Powell Junior Boulevard between West 124th and 125th streets.

Question 26

The James Bailey house is a large freestanding limestone mansion. it was billed from 1886 to 1888 and was designed by architect Samuel Burrage Reed for James Anthony Bailey of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Where is it located?

Answer 26

10 Saint Nicholas Pl. W. 150 st in the sugar Hill area of Harlem.

Question 27

The Jamal Terrace historic district consist of 50 residential rowhouses field between 1890 and 1902. Where is it located?

Answer 27

Covers from west 160th St. and Saint Nicholas Avenue to W. 1 62nd St. And Edgecombe Avenue.

Question 28

Langston Hughes house is a store Oklahoma located in Harlem. African-American poet Langston Hughes occupy the top floor as his work room from 1947 to 1967. Where is it located?

Answer 28

20 E. 127 street between Madison and 5th Avenue

Question 29

La Marqueta is a market place under the elevated Metro-North railway tracks. In its heyday in the 1950s and 60s, over 500 vendors operated out of it. It was an important social and economic venue for Hispanic New York.

Answer 29

It is located between 111th and 116th St. and Park Avenue in East Harlem.

Question 30

Lenox Lounge long-standing bar in Harlem. two performances by many great jazz artists including, Billie holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. Harlem Renaissance writers James and Baldwin and Langston Hughes were both patrons, as was Malcolm X. (Permanently closed)

Answer 30

228 Malcolm X Blvd. between 124th & 125 st.

Question 31

Manhattan Ave. Is a national historic district in west Harlem, consist of 113 residential row houses built bet 1886 and 1896. These buildings are three-story brownstone in Brooklyn rowhouses over raised basements in the queen and, Romanesque, and Neo-grec styles.

Answer 31

Encompasses West 120 -123rd Sts.

Question 32

The main building is a five-story red brick structure and the Harlem/Manhattanville neighbor New York City. It was built in 1905 for the Bernheimer and Schwartz Pilsner brewing Company. Where is it located?

Answer 32

1361 Amsterdam Ave. between 126 and | 128th Sts.

Question 33

Minton's Playhouse is a jazz club and bar associated with the first floor of the season hotel. Minton's was founded by tenor saxophonist Henry Minton remains and in 1938. Clinton is famous for his role in the development of modern jazz, also known as bebop.

Answer 33

210 W. 118th St. Saint Nicholas Avenue between 117 and 118 street

Question 34

Morningside Park is a New York City park. The park came into existence as a cost saving measure to avoid the expense of extending the street grid across difficult terrain.

Answer 34

It occupies from 110 to 123rd St. from Morningside Avenue to Morningside Drive at the border between home and Morningside Heights.

Question 35

The Mount Morris Bank building referred to as the coin exchange meeting is a Stoeckel building is Harlem.

Answer 35

It is located at 81–85 E. 125th St. on the north west corner of Park Avenue.

Question 36

Mount Morris park historic district is a large 16 block area in west central Harlem. Mount Morris swear, the core of the district, is now called Marcus Garvey park.

Answer 36

The boundaries are West 118tb and West | 124th St. 5th Avenue to Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard(7th Ave)

Question 37

Icahn school of medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Hospital. Where are they located?

Answer 37

1428 Madison Ave. covering E. 98th St. E. 102nd St. between Madison and 5th aves/museum mile

Question 38

El Museo was a fire station during the Nuyorican movement and the civil rights movement where books were burned by radical political figures. Spurred by concerns of lack of cultural diverse city in city educational programs. Where is it located?

Answer 38

1230 5th Ave., East Harlem NY | Fifth Avenue between E.105th and E.104 St.

Question 39

The Museum of New York City is a history and art museum founded by Henry Collins Browning 1923 to preserve and present the history of New York City and its people. Where is it located?

Answer 39

1220–1227 5th Ave. between East 103and East 104 Streets

Question 40

The national Black Theatre is a nonprofit cultural and educational cooperation and community-based theater company. Where is it located?

Answer 40

2031 5th Ave. between East 126 and East 125 streets

Question 41

New York College of podiatric medicine is a private specialize college founded in 1911. Where is it located?

Answer 41

53 E. 124th St. between Madison and Park Avenue's

Question 42

Rucker Park is a basketball court in Harlem. Named after Holcombe Rucker, a local teacher and the playground director for the New York City Department of Parks and recreation. Rucker started a basketball tournament in 1950 in order to help less fortunate kids stay off the street and aim for college careers. The players in the Rucker to tournament featured slamdunks, crossovers, and dribbles, and bravado that excited the crowd. This was foreign to the NBA at the time.

Answer 42

West 155 st & 8 ave/Frederick Douglass Boulevard across the street from the former polo grounds site.

Question 43

Saint Martin's episcopal church.

Answer 43

Lenox/Malcolm X Blvd. between 121 and 122 streets.

Question 44

Savoy ballroom was in operation from 1926 to 1958. Savoy's ballroom was 10,000 ft.². It was a block long and could hold up to 4000 people. Unlike ballroom such as the Cotton club, Savoy always had a no discrimination policy. Now known as the Harlem swing dance society. Where is it located?

Answer 44

34 W. 134 street between Malcolm X and fifth Avenue

Question 45

Saint Nicholas historic district (Striver's Row) is a start district. It is a national and New York City district of real houses and associated buildings designed by architect in 18 91–93 by developer David H king Junior. Where is it located?

Answer 45

West 138 to West 139th St. between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd (7th Ave) and Frederick Douglass Blvd.(8th Ave)

Question 46

Studio museum in Harlem was founded in 1968 and was the first museum in the United States devoted to the work of African-American Artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. originally the museum focused on workshops/exhibition programs that were designed to give artist space to practice your craft, create works and show them.

Answer 46

144 W. 125th St. between Adam Clayton(7th Ave) Powell and Malcolm X Blvd(8th).

Question 47

Swing low Harriet Tubman memorial. A10 foot tall, bronze statue of Harriet Tubman in a Harlem, part of the 2.8 million dollar project. Many question why the statue faces south rather than north toward freedom. Upset neighbors signed a petition with over 1000 signatures calling for the city to reverse her field of vision. They believe this was done out of ignorance or intellectual laziness. Where is it located?

Answer 47

Saint Nicholas Avenue between 121 and 122 streets.