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Harlem Nighttime street view of the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, with bright marquee lights advertising Cab Calloway and Bill Robinson, and vintage cars parked out front. Harlem, New York City Harlem, New York, New York “We march with Selma!”
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Tower Bridge over the Thames River in London, England. Opened in 1894. Remains an Important Traffic Route with 40,000 Crossings Every Day.
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district, New York City, New York, United States
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Harlem, district of New York City, U.S., occupying a large part of northern Manhattan. Harlem as a neighbourhood has no fixed boundaries; it may generally be said to lie between 155th Street on the north, the East and Harlem rivers on the east, 96th Street (east of Central Park) and 110th Street and Cathedral Parkway (north and west of Central Park) on the south, and Amsterdam Avenue on the west. In 1658 Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch...

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