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By Jeff Mays

HARLEM — Frederick Douglass Boulevard's restaurant row gets all the attention, but Anahi Angelone, owner of Corner Social, thinks Lenox Avenue is quickly gaining ground.

"If you ask me, Lenox Avenue is a lot more Harlem than anywhere else," Angelone said. "The townhouses, the churches, the soul of Harlem, you can feel it more on Lenox Avenue than anywhere else."

By Jeff Mays

HARLEM — For its first global festival, the Apollo Theater looked to the next borough and then across the pond.

The Breakin' Convention, a London-based international dance theater festival, will celebrate its 10th anniversary at the Apollo Theater this weekend. Breaking, one of the four elements of Hip Hop culture, was founded 40 years ago in the Bronx.

The festival, normally held at London's Sadler's Wells Theater, will bring together artists from places as diverse as Brazil, Germany, France and South Africa.

By Laignee Barron / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

They’re young, they’re hot, and they have one hell of a comeback story.

Dancers with the Dance Theater of Harlem took a routine curtain call after a show in 2004 — yet no one expected would be its last.

The company went on hiatus for what was supposed to be one month — but it lasted eight years.

But the country’s first African-American ballet company has finally pulled itself out of a crippling $2.3 million debt and is now wrapping up a successful 2012-2013 season.

By Laignee Barron / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
ast Harlem’s La Marqueta wants to go beyond food.

Dimitri Gatanas, founder of East Harlem’s Urban Garden Center, has created Flea Marqueta, which will feature dozens of stalls for East Harlem retailers, artists, and craftsman in the space under the Metro North tracks at E. 116th St.

So far 10 vendors — including a vegan cookie baker, a wood jeweler, and a t-shirt maker — as well as a local dance company, are scheduled for the June 23 grand opening.