National Register Listing

Dorrance Brooks Square Historic District

Edgecombe Avenue, West 136th-140th Streets, New York, NY
Local significance of the district:
Architecture; Black; Ethnic Heritage; Politics/government; Social History

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.