September 2019 - Photo #21 - September 17 - Walk to Manhattan

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This is the façade of the Audubon Ballroom at 165th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, one of Harlem's great ballrooms of the 1930s and 40s (along with the Renaissance Ballroom). It was the site of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965. The ballroom itself was razed by Columbia University in 1989 for expansion of its medical center (which is just across the street) but due to protests from the community the façade was preserved.