We´ll Always Love Fidel and Cuba, say Harlem Residents
In 1960, the Cuban leader met here with Malcom X. Sergio Alejandro Gómez explains this story´s context
Fidel Castro stayed at Harlem´s Theresa Hotel in September 1960 and there are plenty images and testimonies that remind us so. After 58 years, Dominio Cuba has returned to the place that brought together Fidel and Malcolm X, the host of the Commander, at the city that still remembers it. Here, we tell the story.
Then and now
Move the mouse over to see the Theresa Hotel then and now:
The Theresa Hotel is located at the corner of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard (commonly known as 7th Avenue and 125th Street). It was inaugurated in 1913 and from that moment on, until the construction of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office building in 1973, it was the tallest one in Harlem. Because of its attractive façade, the hotel was known as the “Waldorf Astoria of Harlem”.
Since its opening until 1940, the hotel only accepted white guests, with the exception of a few African American celebrities. This changed with the new hotel´s management. It closed in 1967 and today it´s being rebuilt, as you can see.
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