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A Fresh Meadows-based entity named after the address acquired the pair of 1-story buildings at 266-272 W. 135th St. and 262-264 W. 135th St. from a Midtown-based LLC, also named after the address ...
The primary bedroom has a decorative fireplace and a windowed walk-in closet that can fit a home office. Original moldings, ...
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country.
One hundred years ago, the Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile and archivist Arturo Schomburg donated his personal collection to the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints at the 135th Street ...
With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their ...
Ernestine Rose, who was the head librarian at the 135th Street branch, and Catherine Latimer, the New York Public Library’s first Black librarian, built on Schomburg’s donation by documenting ...
Ernestine Rose, who was the head librarian at the 135th Street branch, and Catherine Latimer, the New York Public Library’s first Black librarian, built on Schomburg’s donation by documenting ...
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country. The center hopes to spread awareness of that fact Saturday ...
Schomburg moved to New York in 1891 and, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926, sold his collection of approximately 4,000 books and pamphlets to the New York Public Library.