#450 Harlem in the Jazz Age: A Renaissance in New York

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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We’re looking at the glamour and mystery of Harlem during the 1920s, a decade when the predominantly black neighborhood, in the words of Langston Hughes, “was in vogue.”

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Greg and I just wanted to formally invite you to spend the weekend in the
0:09.8	Gilded Age with us. We're throwing a four-day Gilded Age getaway in New York City from Thursday,
0:16.5	May 29th to Sunday, June 1st, 2025. We'll be staying together in a four-star Midtown Hotel and over the course of the weekend
0:26.1	exploring the many aspects of the Gilded Age, from a kickoff cocktail party in an actual
0:32.0	Gilded Age mansion to a tour of the Metropolitan Museum with the Guilted Gentleman himself,
0:38.1	Carl Raymond,
0:41.2	to walks through the village and the Tenement Museum.
0:43.4	Plus, a dinner cruise.
0:46.0	We're limiting the group to 40 people.
0:49.6	So head to Bowery Boyswalks.com to join us.
0:56.2	Ladies and gentlemen, Langston Hughes.
1:10.3	I pick up my life and take it with me, and I put it down in Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Harlem, any place that is north and east, and not Dixie.
1:13.5	I pick up my life and take it on the train to Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Seattle, Oakland, Salt Lake, any place that is north and west and not south.
1:21.6	I am fed up with Jim Crow laws, people who are cruel and afraid, who lynch and run, who are scared of me and me of them.
1:30.4	So I pick up my life and take it away on a one-way ticket.
1:35.3	Gone up north.
1:37.1	Gone out west.
1:39.0	Gone.
1:39.4	Gone.
1:43.5	The Bowery Boys episode 450
1:46.0	Harlem in the Jazz Age
1:48.1	A renaissance in New York
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