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Strivers' Row

  • Address: W. 138th and W. 139th Sts. between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Frederick Douglass Blvds., Harlem, New York, NY | Map It

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Some of the few remaining private service alleys that once ran behind the city's town houses (where deliveries would arrive via horse and cart) lie behind these elegant 1890s Georgian and neo-Italian homes, visible through iron gates. Note the gatepost between No. 251 and 253 on West 138th Street that says, "Private Road. Walk Your Horses." These blocks attracted African-American doctors, lawyers, and other professionals, earning its enduring nickname in the 1920s from less affluent Harlemites who felt its residents were "striving" to become well-to-do.

  • Metro: B, C to 135th St.

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