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Savoy Ballroom

1926 establishments in New York City1958 disestablishments in New York (state)Cultural history of New York CityDefunct jazz clubs in New York CityFormer music venues in New York City
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(Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948) (LOC) (4976469817)
(Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948) (LOC) (4976469817)

The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Lenox Avenue was the main thoroughfare through upper Harlem. Poet Langston Hughes calls it the "Heartbeat of Harlem" in Juke Box Love Song, and he set his work "Lenox Avenue: Midnight" on the legendary street. The Savoy was one of many Harlem hot spots along Lenox, but it was the one to be called the "World's Finest Ballroom". It was in operation from March 12, 1926, to July 10, 1958, and as Barbara Englebrecht writes in her article "Swinging at the Savoy", it was "a building, a geographic place, a ballroom, and the 'soul' of a neighborhood". It was opened and owned by white entrepreneur Jay Faggen and Jewish businessman Moe Gale. It was managed by African-American businessman and civic leader Charles Buchanan. Buchanan, who was born in the British West Indies, sought to run a "luxury ballroom to accommodate the many thousands who wished to dance in an atmosphere of tasteful refinement, rather than in the small stuffy halls and the foul smelling, smoke laden cellar nightclubs ..."

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(Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948) (LOC) (4976469817)
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