Hip-Hop landmark 1520 Sedgwick Avenue will be honored by a New York Art Committee for its cultural significant to the city.
 
The address is noted for it’s role in Hip-Hop history as the place DJ Kool Herc gave a small party in a recreational room inside of the building in August of 1973.
 
The party helped lay the ground work to help Hip-Hop music to flourish in and around the Bronx in the early 1970’s.
 
1520 Sedgwick is one of six spots that City Lore and the Municipal…(read more)