Sugar Hill (Manhattan)
Sugar Hill is a neighborhood in Central Harlem in the New York City borough of Manhattan .
location
Sugar Hill is in the northern part of the Hamilton Heights neighborhood . It extends from 145th Street in the south to 155th Street in the north and from Edgecombe Avenue in the east to Amsterdam Avenue in the west.
history
The name Sugar Hill came up in the 1920s when this area became a preferred residential area with townhouses for wealthy African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance . The name was intended to highlight the “sweet life” in Harlem. Here z. B. WEB Du Bois , Thurgood Marshall , Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Duke Ellington .
Langston Hughes wrote of Sugar Hill's relative prosperity as compared to the rest of Harlem in his essay Down and Under in Harlem , published in The New Republic in 1944 : “If you are white and are reading this, do not take it for granted, that all of Harlem is a slum. That's not it. There are large apartment buildings on the hill, Sugar Hill, and up at City College - beautiful houses with high rents, elevators and doormen, where Canada Lee lives and toilet Handy and George S. Schuylers and Walter Whites, where colored families keep their babies in private Place kindergartens and their offspring attend the Ethical Culture School. " (Original:" If you are white and are reading this vignette, don't take it for granted that all Harlem is a slum. It isn't. There are big apartment houses up on the hill, Sugar Hill, and up by City College - nice high-rent-houses with elevators and doormen, where Canada Lee lives, and WC Handy, and the George S. Schuylers, and the Walter Whites, where colored families send their babies to private kindergartens and their youngsters to Ethical Culture School ").
Sugar Hill was designated a Historic District by the Landmarks Preservation Commission of the City of New York in 2000 . The historic value of this district is also recorded on a national level by being listed as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places .
Sugar Hill and Music
The names of the rap group The Sugarhill Gang and the rap record company Sugar Hill Records pay homage to the neighborhood. The rapper AZ also refers to the neighborhood in his song Sugar Hill on the album Doe or Die . Sugar Hill is also mentioned in the lyrics of the jazz standard Take the “A” Train by Billy Strayhorn .
Sugar Hill in the movie
The American thriller Sugar Hill by Leon Ichaso from 1994 makes reference to the district.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Harlem - New York City Neighborhood - NYC . In: nymag.com . New York Magazine. March 10, 2003. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
- ↑ Harlem, Hamilton Heights, El Barrio, New York City . In: ny.com . Retrieved January 4, 2009.
- ↑ Hughes, Langston: Down Under in Harlem . In: New Republic, March 27, 1944. pp. 404f.
- ^ Nina Siegal: Landmark Status For Harlem Buildings; District Holds Hub of Black Culture . In: The New York Times . The New York Times Company. June 15, 2000. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
