Harlem

American  

[hahr-luhm] / ˈhɑr ləm /

noun

1. a section of New York City, in the NE part of Manhattan.

2. a tidal river in New York City, between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, which, with Spuyten Duyvil Creek, connects the Hudson and East rivers. 8 miles (13 km) long.

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Harlem British  

/ ˈhɑːləm /

noun

1. a district of New York City, in NE Manhattan: now largely a Black ghetto

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Harlem Cultural  

1. Neighborhood of Manhattan.

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During the 1920s, Harlem was the site of a great upsurge in black literature, music, and theater known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Mostly populated by African-Americans, Harlem has long been a center of black culture.

The area now contains a large Puerto Rican population and, after a period of economic decay, has experienced a revitalization.

Example Sentences

Someone sent swoony glossies of bright fish and azure waters to my apartment in Harlem.

From Salon

“The 1930s were a peak moment where the greatest, most innovative jazz had a large place in the commercial popular-music world,” says Loren Schoenberg, senior scholar at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.

From The Wall Street Journal

This past year has seen several dazzling examples, including at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Frick, but that of the New Museum is by far the most thrilling.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Harlem theater remembered Shepard as a ‘true Apollo legend.’

From Los Angeles Times

She played the scheming, seductive Iris in the 1970 blaxploitation comedy classic “Cotton Comes to Harlem.”

From Los Angeles Times