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1520 Sedwick Avenue

... that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue (pictured) in The Bronx has been recognized as the "birthplace of hip hop"?
... that Mildred Dunnock played the role of Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman in three mediums — on Broadway, and for both film and television?
... that the current Brutalist synagogue building of Temple Israel of the City of New York was completed in 1967?
... that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the NBA in 1946, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
... that the Palazzo Chupi is named after a lollipop?

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