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Audubon Ballroom entrance

... that the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center (entrance pictured) is located in the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated?
... that the New York Sunday Mercury was the most widely read weekly newspaper in the United States in the mid 19th century?
... that public perception of graffiti in New York is slowly changing from an act of vandalism to a form of art?
... that during his senior season at St. John's, basketball player Boo Harvey hit three buzzer-beating, game-winning shots?
... that the City University of New York system (CUNY) is the United States' largest urban public university system?

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