{"id":101335,"date":"2016-02-08T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=101335"},"modified":"2016-02-08T20:22:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:22:40","slug":"early-70s-dj-kool-herc-block-in-bronx-will-be-renamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/early-70s-dj-kool-herc-block-in-bronx-will-be-renamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kool Herc&#8217;s Block In The Bronx To Be Reanamed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"101338\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/early-70s-dj-kool-herc-block-in-bronx-will-be-renamed\/kool-herc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kool-herc.png?fit=909%2C933&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"909,933\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kool-herc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kool-herc.png?fit=526%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kool-herc.png?fit=640%2C657&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kool-herc.png?resize=526%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"kool-herc\" width=\"526\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kool-herc.png?resize=526%2C540&amp;ssl=1 526w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kool-herc.png?resize=768%2C788&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kool-herc.png?w=909&amp;ssl=1 909w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to DNA Info New York, the City Council announced that it would pass legislation to rename the section of Sedgewick Avenue that includes <strong>DJ Kool Herc<\/strong>\u2018s old address, Hip Hop Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>1520 Sedgewick Avenue in the South Bronx was the location where <strong>Kool Herc<\/strong> DJed some of the very first Hip-Hop parties and has been recognized as the site as the birth of Hip Hop, according to a statement from Councilwoman <strong>Vanessa Gibson<\/strong>\u2019s office. It is said that 1520 Sedgewick is where the very first Hip-Hop jam was thrown by <strong>Herc<\/strong> and his sister on August 11, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman <strong>Gibson<\/strong> says that the renaming is meant to honor both <strong>DJ Kool Herc<\/strong> and the overall contributions that The Bronx has made to creating Hip-Hop over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thesource.com\/2016\/02\/06\/hip-hop-founder-kool-hercs-old-bx-block-to-be-renamed-hip-hop-blvd\/\" target=\"_blank\">thesource<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to DNA Info New York, the City Council announced that it would pass legislation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-qmr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}