{"id":3045,"date":"2009-12-03T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2009-12-03T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:34:23","slug":"birthplace-of-hip-hop-recognized-for-cultural-significance-to-nyc-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/birthplace-of-hip-hop-recognized-for-cultural-significance-to-nyc-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthplace of Hip Hop recognized for cultural significance to NYC history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3048\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/birthplace-of-hip-hop-recognized-for-cultural-significance-to-nyc-history\/78915695ch003_sen_schumer_a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/building.jpg?fit=540%2C368&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,368\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Getty Images&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;NEW YORK - JANUARY 15:  A man walks outside of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, a building considered by many to be the birthplace of the popular \\&quot;hip hop\\&quot; style of music January 15, 2008 in the Bronx area of New York.  Long-time residents of the rent-subsidized building are protesting a plan to bring the building, which they consider a landmark, out of rent control status, thereby raising their below market-level rents.  (Photo by Chris Hondros\/Getty Images)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1200413795&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2008 Getty Images&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;78915695CH003_SEN_SCHUMER_A&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sedgwick_ave\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/building.jpg?fit=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/building.jpg?fit=540%2C368&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3048\" title=\"sedgwick_ave\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/building.jpg?fit=640%2C368&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sedgwick_ave\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/building.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/building.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The NY Daily News announced that City Lore and the Municipal Art Society will pay tribute to six spots in New York City they see as repositories of local culture and history. Usually award ceremonies honor a person or persons. This one will heralds places.<br \/>\nOne of those special places is 1520 Sedgwick Avenue recognized by fans the world over as the birthplace of Hip Hop culture. 1520 Sedgwick Ave. is where DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell), <em>The Father of Hip Hop<\/em>, first played his <em>break beats<\/em> at a house party on August 11, 1973 in the small recreation room and laid the foundation of the music and culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2007\/07\/23\/nyregion\/23flier.span_cityroom.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is the actual flyer for that party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Daily News announced that City Lore and the Municipal Art Society will pay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-N7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}