St. Nicholas Historic District

and Clarence S. Luce (2014) David H. King Jr., the developer of what came to be called "Striver's Row", had previously been responsible for building the 1870 Equitable Building, the 1889 New York Times Building, the version of Madison Square Garden designed by Stanford White, and the Statue of Liberty's base. and featured modern amenities, dark woodwork, By the 1940s, many of the houses had decayed and were converted to single-room occupancies (SROs). Much of the original decorative detail inside the houses was lost at this time, though the exteriors generally remained unaltered. With the post-1995 real-estate boom in Harlem, many of these buildings are being restored to something resembling their original condition. ==Notable residents==

Among those who lived on Striver's Row were: • Eubie Blake, composer, lyricist, and pianist • Alvin Bragg, attorney and politician • Will Marion Cook, composer • Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer and actor • Noble Sissle, composer • Vertner Tandy, architect • Harry Wills, heavyweight boxer • Louis T. Wright, brain surgeon ==In popular culture==

• Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, a Harlem native, named a contrafact of Charlie Parker's "Confirmation" after Striver's Row. The piece appears on the 1958 album A Night At The Village Vanguard. • Jazz singer Cab Calloway mentions Striver's Row in his songs "Hard Times (Topsy Turvy)" and "The Ghost of Smokey Joe". • Abram Hill's 1940 satirical comedy of manners On Strivers Row, produced with the American Negro Theatre (ANT), concerns "the follies of both social climbing and subtle racism among African Americans during Harlem's Renaissance". • The Row is mentioned in the W. C. Handy song "Harlem Blues" which appears on the soundtrack to Spike Lee's 1990 film ''Mo' Better Blues''. • Strivers Row is the name for Penguin Random House publishing imprint created to elevate African-American writers. • One of the chapters of Colson Whitehead's 2001 novel John Henry Days is set on Striver's Row in the early 1940s. • ''Striver's Row, A Novel'' (2006) by Kevin Baker. This is the third book in Baker's trilogy of historical novels that take place in early 20th-century Harlem. ''Striver's Row'' is about a young Malcolm X before he becomes Malcolm X. • ''The Strivers' Row Spy'' by Jason Overstreet. Jason Overstreet's first novel is a historical fiction account of the Harlem Renaissance. Characters include Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Adam Clayton Powell, among other historically significant figures. • In the conclusion of Colson Whitehead’s 2021 novel Harlem Shuffle, the protagonist, Ray Carney considers purchasing a place on Striver’s Row. • Striver's Row is mentioned as the home of a white murder victim in Law & Order: SVU S10E18 "Baggage" ==See also==