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By GIA KOURLAS
Published: April 5, 2013

In the early days of Dance Theater of Harlem its members, charged with proving to the world that black dancers could master ballet, needed a certain pluck. “It was a group of young dancers that went out and carried their own lights and did lecture-demonstrations and started performing,” said Laveen Naidu, 45, the organization’s executive director.

Posted: Thursday, April 4, 2013 3:47 pm | Updated: 5:21 pm, Thu Apr 4, 2013.

By GIDEON MANASSAH

By Douglas Feiden / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Sunday, March 31, 2013, 5:43 PM
Updated: Monday, April 1, 2013, 3:00 AM

The long-neglected, graffiti-scarred RKO Hamilton Theater in Harlem screened its last movie back in 1958, but it still boasts one of the city’s most magnificent interior spaces.

The future of the old vaudeville house is in doubt, however, now that a private investor has shelled out $19 million to buy the property on Broadway and W. 146th St., along with two adjoining parcels.

By KIA GREGORY
Published: March 29, 2013

As another evening falls, the Lenox Lounge sits dim and lonely. Commuters pour out of the 125th Street subway station and onto Lenox Avenue, past its padlocked door. At Ginny’s Supper Club across the street, a mostly black crowd of men in suits and women in heels sips and sways as a band turns out a haunting rendition of John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things.”