This is a relaxed virtual screening, open to all and especially welcoming for people with autism, sensory or communication disorders or learning disabilities. This program is recommended for ages 12 and up. To learn more about relaxed performances at Lincoln Center, visit our Relaxed Performances webpage.

Join us for a relaxed virtual screening of San Juan Hill: Manhattan's Lost Neighborhood, an hour-long documentary directed by Emmy Award winner Stanley Nelson. Through never-before-accessed historical footage, expert commentary, first-person storytelling with former residents, and narration by Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood traces the San Juan Hill neighborhood’s rise and fall—and celebrates the people, arts, and culture whose enduring legacy still resonates today.

About the Documentary: In the first half of the twentieth century, the area where Lincoln Center now stands was known by another name: San Juan Hill. Predating the golden age of the Harlem Renaissance, musical phenomena like Bebop and the Charleston bloomed in this cultural mecca; San Juan Hill’s clubs and theaters nurtured creative geniuses like James P. Johnson, Josephine Baker, Rogelio “Ram” Ramirez, and Thelonious Monk; and businesses and community centers bustled throughout the neighborhood. Home to a largely working-class community, San Juan Hill was redlined in the 1930s and targeted by “urban renewal” in the 1940s and 1950s, displacing thousands of residents. Their stories of home, belonging, and resilience have gone untold...until now.

This film was commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and presented in association with Film at Lincoln Center. This film is made possible by support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.


 

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This event will be a Relaxed Performance, open to all and especially welcoming for people with autism, sensory and communication disorders or learning disabilities
 

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