In the first half of the twentieth century, the area where Lincoln Center now stands was known by another name: San Juan Hill. The neighborhood's clubs and theaters nurtured creative geniuses like James P. Johnson, Josephine Baker, Rogelio "Ram" Ramirez, and Thelonious Monk. Home to a largely working-class community, San Juan Hill was redlined in the 1930s and targeted by "urban renewal" in the 1940s and 1950s, when …
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