Cotton Club
The Cotton Club was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown Theater District until 1940.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bar
- Description: jazz club in Manhattan, New York City
- Address: 656 West 125th Street, New York, 10027
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grant’s Tomb and Manhattan School of Music.
Grant’s Tomb
Museum
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Grant's Tomb, officially the General Grant National Memorial, is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, and of his wife Julia. Grant’s Tomb is situated 1,700 feet southwest of Cotton Club.
Manhattan School of Music
University
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The Manhattan School of Music is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical performance, jazz performance, contemporary performance, composition, and conducting, as well as a bachelor's in musical theatre. Manhattan School of Music is situated 1,900 feet south of Cotton Club.
125th Street station
Metro station
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The 125th Street station is an elevated local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 125th Street and Broadway, at the border of the Manhattanville and Morningside Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times. 125th Street station is situated 870 feet southeast of Cotton Club.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manhattanville and Morningside Heights.
Manhattanville
Neighborhood
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Manhattanville is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is bordered on the north by 135th Street; on the south by 122nd and 125th Streets; on the west by Hudson River; and on the east by Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Morningside Heights
Neighborhood
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Morningside Heights is a neighborhood on the West Side of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Morningside Drive to the east, 125th Street to the north, 110th Street to the south, and Riverside Drive to the west.
Hamilton Heights
Neighborhood
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Hamilton Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is the northernmost part of the West Harlem area, along with Manhattanville and Morningside Heights to its south, and it contains the sub-neighborhood and historic district of Sugar Hill. Washington Heights lies to Hamilton Heights' north, and to its east is Central Harlem.
Cotton Club
- Categories: jazz club and building
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.81759° or 40° 49′ 3″ northLongitude
-73.96028° or 73° 57′ 37″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Height
21 feet (6.4 metres)Open location code
87G8R29Q+2VOpenStreetMap ID
way 271923842OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=barOpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Swedish—“Cotton Club” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cotton Club”
- Arabic: “كوتون كلوب”
- Basque: “Cotton Club”
- Catalan: “Cotton Club”
- Chinese: “棉花俱乐部”
- Chinese: “棉花俱樂部 (夜店)”
- Chinese: “棉花俱樂部”
- Chinese: “棉花田俱樂部”
- Czech: “Cotton club”
- Czech: “Cotton Club”
- Dutch: “Cotton Club (New York)”
- Dutch: “Cotton Club”
- Esperanto: “Cotton Club”
- French: “Cotton Club”
- Galician: “Cotton Club”
- German: “Cotton Club”
- Hebrew: “מועדון הכותנה”
- Hungarian: “Cotton Club”
- Italian: “Cotton Club”
- Japanese: “Cotton Club”
- Japanese: “The Cotton Club”
- Japanese: “コットン・クラブ”
- Japanese: “コットンクラブ”
- Macedonian: “Котон Клуб”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cotton Club”
- Norwegian: “Cotton Club”
- Polish: “Cotton Club (klub)”
- Polish: “Cotton Club”
- Portuguese: “Cotton Club”
- Russian: “Cotton Club”
- Spanish: “Cotton Club”
- Swedish: “Cotton Club”
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