page_title: San Juan Hill, Manhattan
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: San Juan Hill, Manhattan / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Thelonious Monk, Minton's Playhouse, New York, ca. September 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb Español: Thelonious Monk en Minton's Playhouse, Nueva York, hacia septiembre de 1947. Fotografía por William P. Gottlieb. Polski: Amerykański muzyk jazzowy Thelonious Monk w Minton's Playhouse w Nowym Jorku. Zdjęcie wykonał amerykański fotograf William P. Gottlieb około września 1947 roku. Português: O músico de jazz Thelonious Monk na Minton's Playhouse, Nova Iorque, setembro de 1947, fotografado por William P. Gottlieb.
context_page_description: San Juan Hill was a community in what is now the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. Its residents were mostly African American, African Caribbean, and Puerto Rican, and comprised one of the largest black communities in New York before World War I. San Juan Hill was bound by 59th Street to the south, West End Avenue to the west, 65th Street to the north, and Amsterdam Avenue to the east. The site is now occupied by Lincoln Center, a 16.3-acre complex dedicated to the performing arts.
context_section_description: Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist, grew up in San Juan Hill, raised in the Phipps houses on West 63rd street. A portion of a street in the old San Juan Hill neighborhood was named after Thelonious Monk. After his death, Monk's family created the Thelonious Monk Foundation to help improve music education throughout the United States. Jazz pianist Herbie Nichols was also born in the neighborhood, and became a friend of Monk later in life.
  Pianist James P. Johnson, one of the pioneers of the stride style of piano playing family moved to San Juan Hill in 1908. Johnson composed the Roaring Twenties popular song "Charleston".
  Barbara Hillary the first African-American woman to reach the North Pole, and then the first African-American woman to reach the South Pole, and therein the first African American woman to have reached both poles, was born in the neighborhood.
caption: Thelonious Monk in 1947
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