Save The Birthplace of Hip Hop!
Save The Birthplace of Hip Hop!
A campaign has been launched to save the ‘birthplace of hip hop’. On August 11, 1973, in the first floor recreation room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, hip hop was born. It was on that day that DJ Kool Herc, known as the founder of hip hop, and his sister threw the first hip hop house party. Scholars, musicians, and the media widely recognize 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, aka General Sedgwick House, in the Bronx borough of New York City, as the birthplace of hip hop, before it grew up and went downtown and onwards for worldwide coverage.
The flats are now up for sale so the campaign has been launched to save them. Click this link to find out more : http://www.save1520.org/
