{"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’s Block In The Bronx To Be Reanamed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to DNA Info New York, the City Council announced that it would pass legislation to rename the section of Sedgewick Avenue that includes DJ Kool Herc<\/strong>\u2018s old address, Hip Hop Boulevard.<\/p>\n

1520 Sedgewick Avenue in the South Bronx was the location where 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 Vanessa Gibson<\/strong>\u2019s office. It is said that 1520 Sedgewick is where the very first Hip-Hop jam was thrown by Herc<\/strong> and his sister on August 11, 1973.<\/p>\n

Councilwoman Gibson<\/strong> says that the renaming is meant to honor both DJ Kool Herc<\/strong> and the overall contributions that The Bronx has made to creating Hip-Hop over the years.<\/p>\n

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