The read South Bronx in short
The South Bronx is the birthplace of hip-hop culture and home to Yankee Stadium, with an ongoing waterfront revitalization and arts scene. The origin story has an address and a date: on August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc spun a back-to-school party in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue that is widely treated as hip-hop's founding night, and New York State recognized the building as the "birthplace of hip-hop" in 2007. At 149th Street, where Third, Willis, and Melrose Avenues converge, The Hub — the borough's oldest major shopping district, long nicknamed the Broadway of the Bronx — remains the area's commercial crossroads.
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