Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
A Day in Harlem and
Morningside Heights
Morning
Begin late Sunday morning
and take the No. 2 or No. 3
subway uptown to 135th
Street and Lenox Avenue.
Walk to 138th Street and
turn west to hear the
fabulous choir at the
Abys-
sinian Baptist Church
.
Harlem Market
Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture
A complex opened in 1991 houses
the largest research center for
African and African-American
culture in the U.S. The immense
collection was assembled by the
late Arthur Schomburg, who
became curator when the
collection was given to the New
York Public Library. The original
building was the unofficial
meeting place for writers in the
black literary renaissance of the
1920s, and the present building
includes a theater and two art
galleries.
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515 Lenox Ave at 135th St
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Map A3
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Open noon-8pm Tue-Wed,
noon-6pm Thu-Fri, 10am-6pm Sat
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Free
Continue west along 138th
Street to see the fine 1890s
homes of the
St. Nicholas
Historic District
and stop
on 8th Avenue to enjoy a
gospel brunch at
Londel's
Supper Club
(see p148).
Afternoon
Retrace your steps to
Lenox Avenue and head
downtown to 125th Street
to peruse the shops. Turn
west for the famous
Apollo
Theater
(see p148)
and ex-
cellent displays of African-
American art at the
Studio
Museum in Harlem
. After-
wards, stop for coffee at
the Starbucks on Lenox Av-
enue at 125th Street.
Malcolm Shabazz
Mosque/Harlem Market
The mosque, Masjid Malcolm
Shabazz, was the ministry of the
late Malcolm X, and the area
around it has become the center
of an active Muslim community.
Local shops sell books, tapes,
and Muslim clothing, and
restaurants serve Sengalese
cuisine. Street vendors who used
to crowd the sidewalks of 125th
Street have been moved into an
organized complex of market
stalls selling African art, dolls,
drums, masks, dashiki shirts, and
fabrics in African prints.
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Mosque,
102 West 116th Street at Lenox Av
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Map
C3
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Open 9am-5pm daily
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Free
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Harlem
Market, 52-60 West 116th Street, between
5th & Lenox avs
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Map C3
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Open
10am-6pm daily
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Free
Take the M60 bus to West
120th Street and Broadway.
Walk down to
Riverside
Church
(see p145)
for fine
views over the Hudson
River from the bell tower.
Across the street is the
monument honoring the
18th U.S. president, Ulysses
S. Grant. At 116th Street,
head east two blocks to
Broadway and the entrance
to
Columbia University
(see p145)
. One block east
on Amsterdam Avenue is
the
Cathedral Church of
St. John the Divine
(see
p145)
with its immense
interior. End the day with
some good southern cook-
ing at
Miss Mamie's
(see
p149)
and return to Broad-
way for the No. 1 or No. 9
subway back downtown.
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