Crowds push into Harlem USA, a new shopping center on 125th, where a Disney store shares space with HMV Records, the New York Sports Club, and a nine-screen Magic Johnson theater complex. Nearby, a Rite Aid drugstore and Blockbuster also opened. Maybe part of the reason Harlem seems to be undergoing a rebirth is that it is finally getting what most people take for granted. Get the whole story in the pages of National Geographic magazine. Tell us about them .
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In More to Explore the National Geographic magazine team shares some of its best sources and other information. Special thanks to the Research Division. When Fidel Castro visited New York City in 1960, he chose to stay at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem and met with prominent black leaders including Malcolm X and Langston Hughes. To this day Castro holds Harlem in high regard. The Schomburg Center, part of the New York Public Library, focuses on the history of Harlem from 1900 through 1940.