Nov 30, 2019Take the A Train to Harlem–now all the way up to 145th Street–with the MTA's holiday nostalgia ridesWant to ride on the very same subway cars that inspired jazz great Billy Strayhorn to write "Take the A Train" in 1939? For the next five Sundays–and for the...
Nov 18, 2019The Hotel Olga–the premier hotel for African-Americans during the Harlem Renaissance–is now rubble In April scaffolding appeared around 695 Lenox Avenue, the boarded-up building on the corner of 145th Street that once housed the Hotel Olga, the premier hot...
