The first review of our book, Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars, has appeared, in the Wall Street Journal
The first review of our book, Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars, has appeared, in the Wall Street Journal
I am about halfway through the book right now and I am really enjoying it. The house next door to ours was a numbers bank as recently as ten years ago. I have photographs of the crudely printed signs that remain on the walls — “A Cut Number is a Cut Number,” etc.