Lenox Avenue
Title
Lenox Avenue
Description
This photo is an picture of Lenox Avenue in the 1920s. Lenox Ave seems to be a predominately African American area and also very busy and bustling. Lenox Ave is filled with identical buildings, all of which have the same height, same width, and same features. Some of the buildings though seem to be shops while others may be apartment buildings. Cordelia from “Cordelia the Crude” lived off of Lenox. I imagine her to be walking with the narrator through the busy street of Lenox to a side street, where her tenement building is. Wallace Thurman describes the tenement building in a very negative way and compares Lenox Avenue to Fifth Avenue.
Creator
Wordpress
Source
Sarnak, Genna. "Where to Start." The Harlem Renaissance. Word Press, 8 Dec. 2012. Web. 3 Dec. 2015.
Publisher
<https://theharlemrenaissance.wordpress.com/2012/
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Date
December 3, 2015
Contributor
Laura Watters
Coverage
1920
Files
Collection
Citation
Wordpress, “Lenox Avenue,” Three Decades of NYC, accessed March 16, 2025, http://loyolanotredamelib.org/en203/items/show/85.