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[[133rd Street (Manhattan)|133rd Street]], known as "Swing Street", became known for its cabarets, speakeasies and jazz scene during the Prohibition era, and was dubbed "Jungle Alley" because of "inter-racial mingling" on the street.<ref name="Freeland2009">{{cite book |last=Freeland |first=David |title=Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure |url=https://archive.org/details/automatstaxidanc00davi |url-access=registration |year=2009 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-2763-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/automatstaxidanc00davi/page/155 155]}}</ref><ref name="NNS">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX05_owF5js |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/XX05_owF5js |archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live |title=Saxman Finds Place For Jazz History |date=December 18, 2008 |publisher=New York City News Service |type=Video |access-date=December 6, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Some jazz venues, including the [[Cotton Club]], where [[Duke Ellington]] played, and [[Connie's Inn]], were restricted to whites only. Others were integrated, including the [[Renaissance Ballroom]] and the Savoy Ballroom.

 

[[File:Spritual African Drummer .jpg|thumb|upright|Spiritual African drummer on 135th Street between [[Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard]] and [[Frederick Douglass Boulevard]]]]<!-- The National Black Theater does have a couple of theaters but they have not produced any plays in years; as far as I can tell, they just rent the space out for social events. -->