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  2. Palladium Ballroom - Wikipedia

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    Palladium Ballroom. Coordinates: 40°45′48″N 73°58′58″W. Palladium Ballroom. The Palladium Ballroom was a New York City night club. The US mambo craze that started in 1948 began at the Palladium Ballroom. On March 15, 1946, it opened at the northeast corner of Broadway and 53rd Street.

  3. List of people from the Bronx - Wikipedia

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    Kerry Washington (born 1977) – actress. Douglas Watt (1914–2009) – theater critic [98] Fred Weintraub (1928–2017) – founder and impresario of the Bitter End 1960s hippie club; producer of movies about Woodstock, Bruce Lee. Burt Wolf (born 1938) – travel reporter and writer for CNN and ABC networks.

  4. Beverly Michaels - Wikipedia

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    Career. Michaels began her career at the age of 16 in 1944 as a showgirl at Billy Rose 's Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub in New York. Her stage debut, also at age 16, was in the play Glad to See You which ran in Philadelphia and Boston from November 1944 to January 1945. [4] After that show closed, she was a dancer in Havana for about a year.

  5. Timeline of the Bronx - Wikipedia

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    1639 - Jonas Jonasson Bronck settles and establishes a farm (which he named Emmaus) on 500 acres in what will become known as the Bronx. 1642 - Summer: Anne Hutchinson and family move to a location near Split Rock. 1643 - August: Anne Hutchinson and others are massacred in an Indian raid during Kieft's War.

  6. Perla de Leon - Wikipedia

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    Perla de Leon (born New York, NY, 1952), is an American artist and photographer from New York City. [1] Her most famous work is her "South Bronx Spirit" photo series, documenting the urban decay of the South Bronx due to its total economic collapse during the 1970s.

  7. Lauren Bacall - Wikipedia

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    Betty Joan Perske (September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014), professionally known as Lauren Bacall (/ bəˈkɔːl / bə-KAWL), was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the ...

  8. Christine Jorgensen - Wikipedia

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    Actress, night club singer, recording artist. Known for. Pioneering gender reassignment. Signature. Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989), born George William Jorgensen Jr., [4] was an American actress, singer, recording artist, and transgender activist. A trans woman, she was the first person to become widely known in the United ...

  9. Sisters of Charity of New York - Wikipedia

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    The motherhouse is located at Mt. St. Vincent in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. They were founded by Elizabeth Ann Seton in 1809. In April 2023, the congregation announced that they would cease accepting new members and acknowledge a "path to completion", with the current sisters eventually dying of old age until the order is "completed".