The joke was that even Frank Pellegrino couldn’t get a table at Rao’s, the famed 10-table restaurant in East Harlem that his family owned for more than 100 years. Continue Reading →
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We’re Just Wild About Harlem Mayor Noble Sissle, 1889 – 1975 (Video)
Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 in Indianapolis, Indiana – December 17, 1975 in Tampa, Florida) was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright. Continue Reading →
“… Woman From Harlem,” Annie Hall By Woody Allen (video)
A 1977 classic Harlem movie moment, a clip of a neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), and a few stereotypes from Alvy’s childhood, where his mother and father discuss their house keeper, “…a colored woman from Harlem…”.
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