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La Plaza Cultural |
East Village |
Manhattan |
A vast community garden and performance space |
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Lenox Lounge |
Central Harlem |
Manhattan |
Historic jazz club, home of the famous Zebra Room |
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Loew's 175th Theater, Washington Heights (former) |
Washington Heights |
Manhattan |
Once, the most elegant movie theater in the city |
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Loew's Paradise Theater (former) |
Fordham |
Bronx |
Sumptuous former movie palace turned theater |
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Magic Table at the Hotel Edison Cafe |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
Gathering place for magicians for a half century |
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Mandolin Brothers |
West Brighton |
Staten Island |
Top-notch place to buy stringed instruments |
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Manhattan Center |
Midtown South |
Manhattan |
A more than century-old performance space, housing the Hammerstein Ballroom and the Grand |
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Martha Graham Studio on E. 63rd (site of) |
Upper East Side |
Manhattan |
Where modern dancers learned from an icon |
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Martinka Magic Store (former site of) |
Garment District |
Manhattan |
Magic shop once owned by Houdini |
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Marx Brothers Place |
Carnegie Hill |
Manhattan |
Childhood home of the Marx Brothers and its special streetscape |
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Masonic Temple |
Fort Greene |
Brooklyn |
Hall for hire and home to Masons' meetings |
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McCarren Pool |
Greenpoint |
Brooklyn |
Public pool, now open as a venue for shows and events |
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Metropolitan Opera House (site of) |
Garment District |
Manhattan |
One-time home to opera, from 1883 to 1967 |
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Minton's Playhouse |
Central Harlem |
Manhattan |
After-hours hangout for jazz musicians and the birthplace of bebop |
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Moondog's Corner |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
Where this NYC street artist plied his trade |
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Museum of Chinese in America |
Chinatown |
Manhattan |
Pioneering museum with strong community base |
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Music and Art High School (former) |
Hamilton Heights |
Manhattan |
Specialized arts high school, now merged with the High School of Performing Arts as Laguardia High School |
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Naumburg Band Shell, Central Park |
Central Park |
Manhattan |
Intimate performance space in Central Park |
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Nuyorican Poets Cafe |
East Village |
Manhattan |
A popular forum for poetry slams |
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Original Blackfoot Mas Camp |
East Flatbush |
Brooklyn |
Storefront where costumes are made for the West-Indian Day Parade |
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P.S. 52 (now M.S. 52) |
Mott Haven |
Bronx |
Rehearsal space where Latin music legends met and performed |
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P.S. 64/El Bohio (former) |
East Village |
Manhattan |
A historic school building turned into a cultural center |
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Paradise Garage (former) |
Greenwich Village |
Manhattan |
Underground nightclub from 1970s-80s |
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Park Plaza and Park Palace |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
Dance hall dubbed the "birthplace of New York Latin dance music" |
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Pearl Theater Company |
East Village |
Manhattan |
Classical theater company, no longer at its St. Mark's Place location |
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Poppenhusen Institute |
College Point |
Queens |
Community cultural center in College Point |
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Postcrypt Coffeehouse |
Morningside Heights |
Manhattan |
Since 1964, a gathering place at Columbia University |
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Provincetown Playhouse |
Greenwich Village |
Manhattan |
Legendary place in theater history, now controversially preserved by NYU |
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Riverside Church |
Morningside Heights |
Manhattan |
Religious, cultural and educational institution |
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Roseland Ballroom |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
The last of the big ballrooms of New York |
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S.O.B.'s |
SoHo |
Manhattan |
World Music venue in SoHo |
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Saint George Theater |
St. George |
Staten Island |
Historic Staten Island theater |
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Second Presbyterian Church (The Old Scotch Church) |
Upper West Side |
Manhattan |
Church attended by Scottish parishioners |
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Sista's Place |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
Brooklyn |
Coffeehouse and performance space that supports activism |
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Sixth Avenue Jazz Loft |
Midtown South |
Manhattan |
After hours hangout for jazz musicians from 1954 to 1964 |
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Skate Key Roller Rink (former) |
Mott Haven |
Bronx |
Popular venue for skating, break dancing competitions and "battles" |
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Slave Theater (former) |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
Brooklyn |
First opened as the Regent Theater, then as Slave One, identified with African American activism |
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Smalls Jazz Club |
Greenwich Village |
Manhattan |
Tiny jazz venue in Greenwich Village |
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Smalls' Paradise (former) |
Central Harlem |
Manhattan |
A long-running Harlem jazz club, closed in 1986 |
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St. Agnes Apartments |
Harlem |
Manhattan |
Home to African American man of the theater and unionist, Frederick O'Neal |
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St. Nick's Pub |
Harlem |
Manhattan |
Live jazz seven nights a week for more than fifty years |
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Stanton Street Shul |
Lower East Side |
Manhattan |
Rare tenement shul on the Lower East Side |
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Steinway Hall |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
The showroom for the Steinway & Sons Piano Company |
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Teatro Puerto Rico (former) |
Mott Haven |
Bronx |
Featured Mexican movies and Puerto Rican music |
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The Town Hall |
Times Square |
Manhattan |
Performance space originally built as a lecture hall and meeting place for the women's suffrage movement. |
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Theater for the New City |
East Village |
Manhattan |
Pulitzer prize-winning community cultural institution |
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Tree of Hope (site of) |
Central Harlem |
Manhattan |
A talisman for performers |
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Tritons Club (former) |
Hunts Point |
Bronx |
Social club established by the Sparks stickball team |
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Tropicana Club (former) |
Longwood |
Bronx |
The Bronx's most elegant nightclub for Latin Music |
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Variety Theatre (site of) |
East Village |
Manhattan |
An old movie theater, once an unofficial neighborhood landmark |
