110th Street (Manhattan)
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110th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is commonly known as the boundary between Harlem and Central Park, along which it is known as Central Park North. In the west, it is also known as Cathedral Parkway.
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References in popular culture
Like 96th Street, 110th is seen to symbolically divide New York City by wealth, class and race.
- The street is also known from the Bobby Womack song Across 110th Street and from the 1972 movie of the same title. The song also was used later in the 1997 film Jackie Brown and the 2007 film American Gangster (film).
- The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band released a highly regarded jazz album in 1969 entitled Central Park North.
- In the film Die Hard with a Vengeance the African-American character Zeus Carver tells John McClane not to bother him with the antics of terrorist criminal Simon Gruber unless he crosses 110th Street.
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Famous residents
George Gershwin lived in the apartment building on the northwest corner of 110th and Amsterdam Ave., where he composed his seminal piece, Rhapsody in Blue.
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