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United Palace of Spiritual Arts

The United Palace, originally a vaudeville house and deluxe movie theatre, is where spirituality, the arts, and community are United.

As the home of Spiritual Artistry, the United Palace explores the myriad expressions of consciousness, from guest speakers such as Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston to online programs on astrology, tarot, shamanism, and the world’s great wisdom traditions. As one of Manhattan’s largest theatres, we host concerts by world-class artists like Lenny Kravitz, Juan Luis Guerra, and Aventura with Romeo Santos. We honor our cinematic past by screening both premieres and classic movies paired with live entertainment, such as Rita Moreno introducing “West Side Story” or a treasure hunt before “The Goonies.” The United Palace also serves as a stage for local arts organizations and schools and is proud to regularly host events featuring uptown native Lin-Manuel Miranda.

The spectacular 1930s decor is a mash-up of Art Deco, Moorish, Rococo, Classical, and other styles, welcoming one and all to the wonder of Spiritual Artistry.

More information: https://www.unitedpalace.org/

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The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center transforms the history site of my father’s martyrdom into an oasis of support for the ongoing struggle for social justice. For years the fate of the Audubon Ballroom and Theater was uncertain.

Located in the Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan, the doors of the Audubon closed shortly after my father’s assassination. Due to a lack of payment back taxes, the City of New York assumed ownership of the building in 1967.

It was eventually purchased by the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, which intended to demolish the entire building and erect a medical research center in its place. This plan however was met with fierce opposition by grass roots groups as well as my mother—all of whom wanted the building to remain standing as a memorial to my father’s humanitarian efforts; and, as a permanent symbol of the African American struggle for equality.

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The Cloisters

The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that largely date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century.

The building and its cloistered gardens—located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan—are treasures in themselves, effectively part of the collection housed there. The Cloisters’ collection comprises approximately two thousand works of art.

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The Hispanic Society of America

The Hispanic Society of America, located on Audubon Terrace, Broadway, New York, provides a free museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

The collections of the Hispanic Society are unparalleled in their scope and quality outside the Iberian Peninsula, addressing nearly every aspect of culture in Spain, as well as a large part of Portugal and Latin America, through the twentieth century.

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Morris-Jumel Mansion

During the decade before the Revolutionary War, the Georgian house, with its monumental portico and octagonal drawing room, was the setting for some of the colony’s most fashionable parties.

In the fall of 1776, the Mansion was seized by the Continental Army and served as headquarters for George Washington during the Battle of Harlem Heights. British and Hessian commanders occupied the house after Washington’s retreat from New York.

In the summer of 1790, Washington returned to the Mansion and dined with the members of his cabinet. Among those at the table were Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Knox.

In 1810, wealthy French wine merchant Stephen Jumel and his American wife, Eliza, purchased the Mansion, and spared no expense refurbishing it. In 1828, they returned from Paris with crates of furniture and paintings, much of which they claimed had belonged to Napoleon. A year after Stephen Jumel died in 1832, his widow married former vice president Aaron Burr. The marriage ended quickly and Eliza lived alone in the house until her death in 1865.

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