In the 1950s, San Juan Hill was mostly a community of Black and Puerto Rican residents. Their story — and even the name of their neighborhood — has been mostly scrubbed from history.

She was nosing around on Ancestry.com and found that her grandmother, born in 1908, had lived at an address in San Juan Hill, as the Lincoln Center neighborhood was known early in the 20th century.

Revisiting San Juan Hill, the neighborhood destroyed to make way for Lincoln Center. In New York City, the area dominated by Lincoln Center was formerly home to Black and Puerto Rican communities.

“San Juan Hill,” a 75-minute multimedia work, will have its premiere on Oct. 8, when Charles and his group, Creole Soul, join the New York Philharmonic for two performances.

San Juan Hill was also the neighborhood that inspired “West Side Story,” which was written by Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim in the late 1950s, ...

Monk and Stanley Nelson, the director of the film "San Juan Hill: Manhattan's Lost Neighborhood," both agreed the next step for Lincoln Center was to remove the wall facing one of the last ...

In the early 20th century, San Juan Hill was a lively community. Musical phenomena like bebop and the Charleston were created there, its clubs and theaters nurtured creative geniuses like James P ...

"Big Beautiful Bill" could put over two million acres of land for sale, though the proposal has been met with significant ...

In the 1950s, San Juan Hill was mostly a community of Black and Puerto Rican residents. Their story — and even the name of their neighborhood — has been mostly scrubbed from history.

In the 1950s, San Juan Hill was mostly a community of Black and Puerto Rican residents. Their story — and even the name of their neighborhood — has been mostly scrubbed from history.