headed (1939) by Colonel Benjamin O. Davis; he and his son are the
only Negro line officers in the United States Army.

Sugar Hill, Harlem's finest residential section, is the neighborhood
west of Eighth Avenue, from about 138th to 155th Street. Here, along
Edgecombe, St. Nicholas, and Convent Avenues, are elaborately decorated
apartment houses tenanted by Harlem's most successful citizens. Bill
Robinson, Jack Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Harry Wills,
George Schuyler, and Walter White are among those who live or have
lived on Sugar Hill. One of the dwellings is the Florence Mills Apart-
ments, Edgecombe Avenue and 153d Street, named in honor of the
internationally famous Negro musical comedy star, who died in 1927.

At the extreme northeastern end of Harlem, where Seventh Avenue
and the Harlem River meet, are two of the locality's most important hous-
ing developments. At Seventh Avenue and 150th Street are the Paul
Laurence Dunbar Apartments, occupying an entire city block. The
six separate buildings, six stories high and of variegated red Holland
brick, are grouped around a central garden, with a playground for the
smaller children. The development, named for the noted Negro poet, was
financed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and designed by Andrew J. Thomas.
It was completed in 1928 and conducted on a co-operative basis until
1936 when, as a result of many defaults in payment, Mr. Rockefeller
foreclosed; the Dunbar National Bank, in the building, the only bank in
Harlem operated by Negroes, was subsequently liquidated. He reimbursed
the former tenant-owners for their capital payments and operated the
apartments on a rental basis, maintaining the same management and
social activities. A block north, from 151st to 153d Street, are the Harlem
River Houses, the first example of large-scale public hous-
ing in Manhattan.

Spanish Harlem

Area: E. 96th and W. 110th Sts. on the south to E. 116th and 120th Sts. on the
north; from Lexington Ave. (96th to 116th St.) and Madison Ave. (116th to 120th
St.) west to 5th Ave. (96th to 110th St.) and Lenox Ave. (110th to 120th St.).

Though called Spanish Harlem, this district is not the home of Span-
iards but of Latin-Americans. European Spaniards have their own small
colonies on West Fourteenth Street and in the vicinity of Cherry Street.
Living in the Harlem quarter side by side are Puerto Ricans, Cubans,