YMCA Jackie Robinson Youth Center, NYC

  • Also Known As: Old YMCA Building, Harlem Branch

  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

I came up out of the subway at 135th and Lenox into the beginnings of the Negro Renaisance. I headed for the Harlem YMCA down the block, where so many new, young, dark, male arrivals in Harlem have spent early days. Langston Hughes

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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1918/00/00 John F Jackson Architect YMCA Building, Harlem Branch is constructed.
1921/09/05 Langston Hughes Visitor Walking from the subway at 135th and Lenox, Langston rents a fourth-floor room at the Harlem YMCA for $7 a week.
1927/11/06 The Harlem YMCA functions as an emergency treatment center for the 50 mourners who fainted and for others who were injured in the crush of people outside Florence Mills' funeral. More serious injured are taken to Harlem and Bellevue hospitals. Funeral of Florence Mills

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Particulars for YMCA Jackie Robinson Youth Center, NYC:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Cultural Affiliation Black American
Sight Category Building
Historic Use Camp
Historic Use Church school
Historic Use Civic
Historic Use Clinic
Criteria Historic Event
Owner Private
Area of Significance Social History
Architectural Style Tudor Revival




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