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Neighborhoods
Wikipedia ties Lena Horne to St. Albans in Queens and Bedford–Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at 112-45 178th Street
112-45 178th Street, Queens: Her home in Addisleigh Park.
Source: untappedcities.com
Places
- The Cotton Club
- Café Society
- Lena Horne Bandshell
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- Girls' High School, School
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
The Cotton Club (Harlem)
1923–1936The Cotton Club stood on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, before it moved to Broadway. Black people at first could not get in, though it featured many of the most popular Black entertainers of the era; Lena Horne began here as a chorus girl at sixteen, per Wikipedia. Louis Armstrong played the Harlem club often, per Clio.
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Café Society
1938–1948Barney Josephson’s club on Sheridan Square, open from 1938 to 1948, prided itself on treating black and white customers equally. Josephson helped launch Lena Horne’s career, and Josh White, the club’s defining star in the early 1940s, headed the bill for four years. Billie Holiday first sang “Strange Fruit” here, per Wikipedia.
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Lena Horne Bandshell
2021The Prospect Park Bandshell was renamed in 2021 for Lena Horne, who was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant. It is home to BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, New York’s longest-running free outdoor performing arts festival, per the Prospect Park Alliance.
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