New Renaissance Bypasses the Old Renaissance

Posted on February 20, 2007 by


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Photo sources: Top, MetroHistory.com; above, Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times

A great article about the deplapidated Renaissance Ballroom was published in The New York Times this weekend.

In his book “When Harlem Was in Vogue” (Oxford, 1989), David Levering Lewis describes the Renaissance as one of the places where “the cream of Harlem would unlimber with the Charleston and Black Bottom.”

Read the article here

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