Harlem
is really Harlem, New York, New York
Real place, still recognisable
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
Upper Manhattan's historic neighbourhood of brownstones and wide avenues, later the setting of Miles Morales.
The real place
Harlem began as the Dutch village of Nieuw Haarlem and became the centre of African American culture in the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. 125th Street, with the Apollo Theater, is its main street.
Visiting
The Apollo Theater on 125th Street runs tours and its famous Amateur Night. Strivers' Row on 138th and 139th Streets has some of Harlem's finest row houses.
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