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This cultural center provides visitors with walking tours that highlight the history of Harlem and its contributions to the greater American culture.
This site contains the remains of hundreds of Africans buried during the 17th and 18th centuries. Read more.
The Apollo is one of the most famous music venues in the US. It is a nationally registered historic space, and was the home of Showtime at the Apollo, a television show showcasing new talent. Read more.
In 1970, Charles Gordone wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play No Place to Be Somebody.
If you need anything on the global African diaspora, this is your first stop. Read more.
This prominent Harlem church traces its roots to 1808, when visiting free Ethiopian sailors and African-American parishioners left the Free Baptist Church due to segregated seating. Read more.
“The Moses of her people”, Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman later opened a home for elderly African-Americans and others. She later lived in the home until her death in 1913. Read more.
This beach at Atlantic City was an area where African-Americans were restricted to from the 1900s to the 1950s. It was named do to the many beachgoers packing chicken lunches and leaving the bones. Read more.
Starters include pickled pork tongue and escargots with bone marrow. Want a sandwich? Try the General Tso's sweetbreads. Go for lunch and order the French onion soup--it's the best I've ever had.
In Amazing Spider-Man #121, Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man's girlfriend, was thrown off by the Green Goblin. Even though the story said it was the George Washington Bridge, the artist drew the Brooklyn Bridge
The original location of Stan Lee's Marvel Bullpen. This is where the magic happened in the 1960s. Just about every major Marvel Comics character was brought to life here!
Home to the New York Comic-Con - October 8th through the 10th. Comics fans, you don't want to miss this huge and awesome con! Find the Graphic.ly booth and say hi!
Have a pinkberry, and imagine Dr. Strange's magic domicile, the Sanctum Sanctorum which lives in the comics at THIS address! 177A Bleecker St. as seen in Marvel Comics!
