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African New York City

African New York City includes Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Apollo Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center a lots more.

New York is an African city. Africans and African Americans built Wall St, New York City and America.

New York’s traditional African neighborhoods, Harlem and Bed-Stuy (Bedford-Stuyvesant), are connected by the (A) Train. Crown Heights is very Caribbean.

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A Secret African City

African New York City (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)
African New York City (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

“New York is a secret African city.”

Robert Farris Thompson, American historian at Yale University

New York City was built by Africans. The first were brought to New Amsterdam by the Dutch in 1626. They were forced to build the wall on Wall Street which became a place where you could buy and sell humans. The first official human auction was in 1655. A human market was set up at the corner of Wall and Pearl Streets in 1711.

New York’s traditional African neighborhoods are Harlem in Manhattan, and Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. Take the (A) train between them. A is for Africa.

Manhattan has had many Little Africas. Currently it is on 116th St west of Fifth Avenue. The Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market is a great place to buy West African products.

East of Fifth Avenue, 116th St becomes the main street of El Barrio Spanish Harlem. Black and Latin are two sides of the same coin.

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