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Sylvia's
Restaurant, Lenox Avenue, Harlem
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JUNGLE
FEVER filming locations
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CREDITS
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Wesley
Snipes is a NY
architect who has an affair with Italian-American secretary
Annabella Sciorra
in Spike Lee’s
excellent film about the pitfalls of an inter-racial
relationship.
Snipes’ neighbourhood
is one of Harlemís middle class enclaves, Strivers’
Row, around West 138th and West 139th Streets.
Built as houses for upper-middle class white families
in the Harlem real estate boom of 1919, they became
the focus for well-to-do African Americans – the
‘Strivers’ – who included the likes of WC Handy,
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake.
Sciorra’s
area is Bensonhurst,
South Central Brooklyn. Traditionally an Italian-Jewish
community, it was here that Yusuf Hawkins, a young black
man, was beaten to death in August 1989. Lee
determined to film in Bensonhurst despite intense local
animosity, including bomb threats and disruption, during
which cinematographer Ernest Dickerson was hit by a
rock.
Featured is Sylvia’s
Restaurant, 328 Lenox Avenue at 125th Street,
Harlem’s legendary soulfood restaurant. Get there early
on Wednesdays, for free tickets to amateur night at
the Apollo Theater.
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FEVER
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