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Tag: Eighth Avenue

Numbers on Harlem’s Streets

December 1, 2011 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Numbers gambling formed part of the rhythm of Harlem’s street life. A map of arrests for playing the numbers in…

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Posted in: Events, Maps Filed under: 1920s, A Nightclub Map of Harlem, E Simms Campbell, Eighth Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Harlem, Lenox Avenue, numbers, numbers gambling, numbers runner, Seventh Avenue

Harlem’s Street Vendors

January 5, 2011 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

On Saturday evenings, as crowds thronged Seventh Avenue in search of entertainment, many residents of Harlem headed to Eighth and…

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Posted in: Maps, Photographs, Places Filed under: 1920s, 1930s, black business, Eighth Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Harlem, Lenox Avenue, peanut sellers, Pig Foot Mary, street markets, street vendors, vegetable sellers, white business

Prostitution arrests

October 5, 2009 Stephen Robertson 3 Comments

Prostitutes were among the blacks who migrated from the San Juan Hill neighborhood to Harlem.  As early as 1919, according…

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Posted in: Events, Maps Filed under: 1920s, 1930s, arrests, Committee of Fourteen, Eighth Avenue, Harlem, Lenox Avenue, prostitution, Seventh Avenue, Wallace Thurman, Willoughby Waterman

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