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Happy birthday Langston Hughes! A few stops in Harlem to celebrate

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 Bowery Boys 58 Views 0 Comments Columbia University, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes

Since I was a teenager, I’ve had an affinity for writer Langston Hughes, the revolutionary jazz poet who was born 115

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Billie Holiday’s New York: Here’s to Swing Street, Harlem’s 133rd Street and other landmarks of jazz

January 23, 2015January 23, 2015 Bowery Boys 245 Views 9 Comments Apollo Theater, Billie Holiday, Carnegie Hall, classic hotels, drugs, Friday Night Fever, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, jazz, Music History, Roosevelt Island

PODCAST Grab your fedora and take a trip with the Bowery Boys into the heart of New York City’s

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Landmarks Podcasts

The Hotel Theresa: An historic treasure of Harlem

November 15, 2013January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 270 Views 4 Comments Alfred Hitchcock, Fidel Castro, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Hotel Theresa, jazz, Joe Louis

The Hotel Theresa, as it looks today, White Castle and all. PODCAST The Hotel Theresa is considered a genuine (if

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Langston Hughes: A few Harlem stops on his birthday

February 1, 2012January 16, 2015 Bowery Boys 67 Views 2 Comments Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, New York Public Library

Dapper gentlemen: At a 1924 celebration in Langston’s honor, at the home of Regina Andrews on 580 St. Nicholas Avenue.

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Our first-ever Bowery Boys book, "Adventures in Old New York" is now out in bookstores! A time-traveling journey into a past that lives simultaneously besides the modern city.

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