SCENE

The Jets show their skills on the street of New York.

ADDRESS

31 W 131st St, New York, New York 10037, United States

LOCATION DETAILS

A part of the movie was filmed in Harlem, the neighborhood north of Central Park. Originally a Dutch village, the neighborhood was formally organized in 1658. It is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem was predominantly occupied by Jewish and Italian Americans in the 19th century, but African-American residents began to arrive in large numbers during the Great Migration in the 20th century. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the center of the Harlem Renaissance, a major African-American cultural movement. With job losses during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. In the 21st century, crime rates decreased significantly, and Harlem started to gentrify.

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