Lenox Lounge

My great NYC nightclub discovery is the Lenox Lounge. It's a jazz club from the late 30's decorated in the Art Deco style and located in the heart of Harlem between 124th and 125th at 288 Lenox Avenue. This is also called Malcolm X Boulevard after a black civil rights activist who worked as a waiter there and used the place to hold meetings. In fact, the Lenox Lounge is in the film Malcolm X starring Denzel Washington. We were invited by the artistic director and jazz pianist Danny Mixon to go on a Friday night. We took a taxi from our hotel in Midtown and when I told the taxi driver who was a young black man the name and address of the bar, he looked very confused.