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ID: 7015858
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015858
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Harlem (neighborhood)  Harlem (neighborhood)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 48 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.8000  decimal degrees
Long: 073 56 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -73.9333  decimal degrees

Note: Settled by Dutch in 17th cen.; was fashionable residential area in 19th cen.; had large influx of African Americans ca. 1910; became noted as center of black music & culture during "Harlem Renaissance" of 1920s-1940s; had influx of Hispanics after WW II.

Names:
Harlem (preferred,C,V)
New Haarlem (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of New York (state)  ............  New York (state) (P)
Hierarchy of New York (inhabited place)  ................  New York (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Manhattan (borough)  ....................  Manhattan (borough) (P)
Hierarchy of Harlem (neighborhood)  ........................  Harlem (neighborhood) (P)

Place Types:
neighborhood (preferred, C)  ............  village was founded here in 1658
residential center (C)
cultural center (C)
battlefield (H)  ............  site of Battle of Harlem Heights in 1776 in American Revolution

Sources and Contributors:
Harlem..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS36011520
New Haarlem..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 377
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 377
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS36011520
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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