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Noun: Harlem  haa(r)-lum
  1. A neighbourhood in northern Manhattan, New York City, historically significant as a cultural and business centre of African American life
    "Harlem has been an important centre of Black culture since the early 1900s"

Type of: city district

Part of: Manhattan

Encyclopedia: Harlem, New York County, New York