harlem

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Definition of harlem in English English dictionary

A neighborhood in northern Manhattan, currently known for its black population

an area of New York City in northeast Manhattan, where many African-American and Hispanic people live. District occupying part of northern Manhattan Island, New York City, U.S. It lies north of Central Park, with its business district centred on 125th Street. Founded by Peter Stuyvesant in 1658 as Nieuw Haarlem, it was named after Haarlem in the Netherlands. During the American Revolution it was the site of the Battle of Harlem Heights (Sept. 16, 1776). It was a farming area in the 18th century and a fashionable residential district in the 19th century. A black residential and commercial area by World War I, in the 1920s it was the centre of the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Brundtland Gro Harlem Gro Harlem Harlem Globetrotters Harlem Renaissance

{i} family name; primarily black neighborhood in the northeastern part of Manhattan, area in New York City; river channel in New York City; town in Florida (USA); town in Georgia (USA); town in Montana (USA)

The northern tip of Manhattan and the southern portion of The Bronx; the flash-point of racial conflict in NYC, hence, the toughest area, especially in movies and on TV

a district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto

Related Terms

Harlem sunset

A fatal wound caused by a knife fight

We had some mean turf wars with rival Latino and Italian gangs, and I've still got the scars to prove it: one under my left eye from some Romano's chain, and one just to the right of my right shoulder blade from some bitch who tried to give me a Harlem sunset –yup, that can happen in Detroit, too.

Harlem sunsets

plural form of Harlem sunset

Harlem Globetrotters

a black US basketball team who travel around the world to play games in which they entertain people with their skill at basketball and their amusing style of playing. African American professional basketball team. The team was organized in 1927 in Chicago by the promoter Abe Saperstein and initially was a competitive team that won a world professional championship in 1940. Since the 1930s the team had incorporated comic routines into their games, and, with the integration of the NBA in the 1950s, the team increasingly emphasized comedy over competition. For the next 50 years the Globetrotters played exhibition games all over the world, displaying spectacular ball handling and humorous antics and always defeating their official opposition, the Washington Generals. In the mid-1990s the team returned to playing competitive games

Harlem Globetrotters

basketball team from Harlem New York (USA) known for their unique and comical style of playing basketball

Harlem Renaissance

or New Negro Movement Period of outstanding vigour and creativity centred in New York's black ghetto of Harlem in the 1920s. Its leading literary figures included Alain Locke (1886-1954), James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman (1902-34), and Arna Bontemps. The literary movement, which coincided with the great creative and commercial growth of jazz and a concurrent growth of the visual arts (see Aaron Douglas), altered the character of much African American literature. Dialect works and conventional imitations of white writers were replaced with sophisticated explorations of black life and culture

Harlem Renaissance

post-World War I period of renewal and prosperity in Black culture literature and music (began in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem)

Harlem River

A channel in New York City separating the northern end of Manhattan Island from the Bronx. With Spuyten Duyvil Creek it connects the Hudson and East rivers

harlem renaissance

a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

harlem river

a channel separating Manhattan from the Bronx

Gro Harlem Brundtland

orig. Gro Harlem born April 20, 1939, Oslo, Nor. Norwegian politician, first woman prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986-89, 1990-96). Trained as a physician, she worked with various government health services, then served as minister of the environment (1974-79). She served in the Norwegian parliament (1977-97). As leader of the Labour Party group, she served as premier three times. In 1987 she chaired the UN World Commission on Environment and Development, and in 1998 she was elected director-general of the World Health Organization

Hyphenation

Har·lem

Turkish pronunciation

härlım

Pronunciation

/ˈhärləm/ /ˈhɑːrləm/

Etymology

() From Nieuw Haarlem (“new Haarlem”), the original Dutch name of the area, after Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands.