Harlem Landmarks
Many places in Harlem are New York City Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, or are otherwise prominent:
- 125th Street
- 155th St Viaduct land bridge leading to Macombs Dam Bridge
- Abyssinian Baptist Church
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building
- Apollo Theater
- Atlah Worldwide Church
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Astor Row
- Blockhouse
- Bushman Steps Stairway that led baseball fans from the subway to The Polo Grounds ticket booth.
- City College of New York
- Cotton Club
- Duke Ellington Circle
- Dunbar Apartments designed by architect Andrew J. Thomas. former home to W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Asa Philip Randolph, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and explorer Matthew Henson
- First Corinthian Baptist Church
- Fort Clinton, Central Park and Nutter's Battery
- Frederick Douglass Circle
- Graham Court
- Hamilton Grange
- Hamilton Heights
- Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts
- Harlem Children's Zone
- Harlem Hospital Center
- The Harlem School of the Arts
- Harlem Stage
- Harlem YMCA
- Harlem Hellfighters Monument / 369th Infantry Regiment Memorial
- Hooper Fountain
- Hotel Theresa
- James Bailey House
- Jumel Terrace and Morris-Jumel Mansion in modern day Washington Heights.
- Langston Hughes House
- La Marqueta
- Lenox Lounge
- Manhattan Avenue-West 120th-123rd Streets Historic District
- Mink Building
- Minton's Playhouse
- Morningside Park
- Mount Morris Park Historic District
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
- El Museo Del Barrio
- Museum of the City of New York
- National Black Theater
- New York College of Podiatric Medicine
- Rucker Park
- St. Martin's Episcopal Church (formerly Trinity Church) designed by William Appleton Potter
- Savoy Ballroom marked by a plaque on Lenox.
- St. Nicholas Historic District
- St. Nicholas Houses
- Strivers' Row
- Studio Museum in Harlem
- Swing Low Harriot Tubman Memorial
- Sylvia's Soul Food
- West 147th-149th Streets Historic District
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