City Council approved a measure to rename a Bronx street Hip-Hop Boulevard this week. The building at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. is considered the birthplace of hip-hop. It was the home of DJ Kool Herc ...

Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) on Sunday presented the congressional resolution officially declaring the Bronx and 1520 Sedgwick Ave. the birthplace of hip hop. The ...

This apartment complex subbed for 1520 Sedgwick Ave., the Bronx building where hip-hop was born. 2. Avatar Studios, 441 W. 53rd St. In Episode 3, the American Century Records A & R man Clark ...

Although the exact site of hip-hop’s birth is up for debate, a commonly accepted spot is 1520 Sedgwick Ave., where DJ Kool Herc and his sister hosted what his website refers to as the “first ...

TheTimes article makes it clear that even these community organizers hadno knowledge of 1520 Sedgwick Ave.’s significance until some chanceGoogling led them to online references to Herc’s work.

"1520 Sedgwick Ave. is the birthplace of hip-hop, creating an art form and culture unique to New York City that would go on to change the world," exclaimed Sedgwick & Cedar CEO, Ray Riccio.

and his sister Cindy Campbell hosted a back to school party in the basement at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Morris Heights area in the Bronx, New York. During those parties, Herc would spin on two ...

The apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Ave., in the Bronx in New York. Rappers, graffiti artists, dancers, DJs, in the early 1970s created hip-hop in the Bronx. Today, the New York borough is in ...

Politicians and tenants rallied Wednesday against the proposed sale of 1520 Sedgwick Ave. – which residents fear eventually will price them out of their homes. “We’re going to keep fighting ...