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Saturday, January 23, 2010
In Sugar Hill, a Street Nurtured Black Talent When the World Wouldn'tNew York Times' journalist David Gonzalez portrays Harlem's famous Sugar Hill neighborhood,
and expains why African American celebrities lived there in the past, while today's Black artists cherish it as a fount of
creativity. "New York is a city of blocks, each with its own history, customs and characters.
Yet from these small stages spring large talents. Anyone who doubts that need look no further than a stretch of Edgecombe
Avenue perched on a bluff near 155th Street. "It was part of Sugar Hill, the neighborhood
of choice for elegant black musicians, dapper actors, successful professionals - and those who aspired to be like them."
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