If you're planning a trip to New York, between your tours in the city you should definitely include the neighborhood of Harlem, the heart of the African American community in the Big Apple.
For years considered an outcast because peripheral ghetto and dangerous, a few years of operation restyling is recovering in the sixth district to make it more attractive to tourists. Actually Harlem has always been a tourist area, but for a niche tourism, for lovers of jazz music that vibrates here in plenty of venues around the neighborhood or to attend a real Mass Gospel.
The neighborhood of Harlem is located in the north of Manhattan, up to Central Park.
And 'different from other parts of the city: here still have not arrived the enormous skyscrapers - although some modern construction begins to peep - and the streets are lined with trees and characterized by buildings built with traditional bricks that are very New York.
Former Dutch colony in 1600 - Harlem is in fact the name of a city of Holland - for over two hundred years Harlem was inhabited by the Dutch, until the second half of the nineteenth century, when we begin to get the first emigrants Irish, British, German and African Americans, who have taken control of the neighborhood in the early twentieth century, because of lower rents. So Harlem became the center of black culture, who still lives in the streets of the neighborhood and the local historians, such as the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club.
Until the eighties, if you asked a taxi driver to take you to Harlem, this refused the ride, to avoid passing in one of the then considered dangerous. Today, however, you can easily stroll around Harlem and enjoy the freshness and originality of the area.
In unmissable details of your tour list: Lenox Avenue, the main street of the neighborhood, with its traditional restaurants; Columbia University, one of the most renowned universities in the States; Cathedral St. John the Divine, famous for being the largest church in the world in the Gothic Revival style. And again: Riverside Church, a Gothic structure with 21 floors high, where inside houses the largest carillon in the world; the Abyssinian Baptist Church, where you can listen to an authentic gospel Mass with a lot of songs, dances and songs; the Studio Museum, where you can see many exhibitions of African-American artists; the Apollo Theater, the theater district famous for having hosted musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin and Duke Ellington.
If you love jazz, the Cotton Club is the temple of this music, historical place in the days of Prohibition: here you can attend a concert while enjoying hearty meals of soul food, the traditional cuisine of the African-American population.
For years considered an outcast because peripheral ghetto and dangerous, a few years of operation restyling is recovering in the sixth district to make it more attractive to tourists. Actually Harlem has always been a tourist area, but for a niche tourism, for lovers of jazz music that vibrates here in plenty of venues around the neighborhood or to attend a real Mass Gospel.
The neighborhood of Harlem is located in the north of Manhattan, up to Central Park.
And 'different from other parts of the city: here still have not arrived the enormous skyscrapers - although some modern construction begins to peep - and the streets are lined with trees and characterized by buildings built with traditional bricks that are very New York.
Former Dutch colony in 1600 - Harlem is in fact the name of a city of Holland - for over two hundred years Harlem was inhabited by the Dutch, until the second half of the nineteenth century, when we begin to get the first emigrants Irish, British, German and African Americans, who have taken control of the neighborhood in the early twentieth century, because of lower rents. So Harlem became the center of black culture, who still lives in the streets of the neighborhood and the local historians, such as the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club.
Until the eighties, if you asked a taxi driver to take you to Harlem, this refused the ride, to avoid passing in one of the then considered dangerous. Today, however, you can easily stroll around Harlem and enjoy the freshness and originality of the area.
In unmissable details of your tour list: Lenox Avenue, the main street of the neighborhood, with its traditional restaurants; Columbia University, one of the most renowned universities in the States; Cathedral St. John the Divine, famous for being the largest church in the world in the Gothic Revival style. And again: Riverside Church, a Gothic structure with 21 floors high, where inside houses the largest carillon in the world; the Abyssinian Baptist Church, where you can listen to an authentic gospel Mass with a lot of songs, dances and songs; the Studio Museum, where you can see many exhibitions of African-American artists; the Apollo Theater, the theater district famous for having hosted musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin and Duke Ellington.
If you love jazz, the Cotton Club is the temple of this music, historical place in the days of Prohibition: here you can attend a concert while enjoying hearty meals of soul food, the traditional cuisine of the African-American population.
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