Portal:New York City/Did you know/12


 * ... that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue (pictured) in The Bronx has been recognized as the "birthplace of hip hop"?
 * ... that Mildred Dunnock played the role of Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman in three mediums &mdash; on Broadway, and for both film and television?
 * ... that the current Brutalist synagogue building of Temple Israel of the City of New York was completed in 1967?
 * ... that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the NBA in 1946, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
 * ... that the Palazzo Chupi is named after a lollipop?