393 Edgecombe Avenue for rent
Our ninth February 1922 post to mark Black History Month 2022
One hundred years ago today… One one could rent the building at 393 Edgecombe Avenue, near 152nd Street in Harlem, for $27,000 (per year, presumably? – we are not sure). The price equates to about $451,845.00 in 2022 dollars.
New York Times, 19 Feb. 1922, Sec. 9 p. 3. Newspapers.com.
The six-storey building was erected in 1913 and currently contains 24 apartments. The New York Public Library holds a photograph of the location dated “about 1922.”
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Manhattan: Edgecombe Avenue –150th Street" The New York Public Library Digital Collections.1922.
The building remains, as of February, 2022:
Photograph courtesy Jacob Pine.
The buildings along Edgecombe Avenue would become a crucial location for the Harlem Renaissance of the late 1920s, and for Black culture long beyond that.
– Jonathan Goldman, Feb 19, 2022
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