Our first stop was the Cotton Club on 125th St. in Harlem. Legendary black entertainment has been a fixture here for many decades, and musicians like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington once performed here. Francis Ford Coppola also made a movie called "The Cotton Club," about race relations in the 1930s.
Then we went further north up Malcolm X boulevard, and found the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Our last stop was at the Abyssinian Baptist Church. In 1935 this was the largest Protestant congregation in America, and it played a significant role in the Harlem Renaissance.
On the way back I stopped outside another church as I heard gospel music coming from inside. Simply amazing talent.
This afternoon I'm heading out to Central Park with some friends. Tomorrow the hunt will continue as we go to Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo.
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