Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill Review

Standing on the bluff of Sugar Hill overlooking Jackie Robinson Park, outside the slightly run-down 409 Edgecombe Ave. you'd never guess that here resided such influential African-Americans as NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, or that farther north at 555 Edgecombe, known as the "Triple Nickel," writers Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston and jazz musicians Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and others lived and played. And it's also here that for more musician Marjorie Eliot has been hosting jazz concerts in her apartment, 3F, from 4 to 6:30 every Sunday for the last decade.