{"id":19344,"date":"2012-12-09T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=19344"},"modified":"2012-12-10T23:10:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T04:10:58","slug":"historic-harlem-landmark-to-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=19344","title":{"rendered":"Historic Harlem Landmark to Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lenox-Lounge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19349\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lenox-Lounge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lenox-Lounge.jpg 650w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lenox-Lounge-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>Legendary Jazz Landmark Lenox Lounge will shut its doors forever New Year&#8217;s Eve, says longtime owner Alvin Reed.\u00a0 The cool Art Deco cabaret has been open since 1942 and has hosted a Who&#8217;s Who of\u00a0 musical icons such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Billie Holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Reed who&#8217;s owned the bar since 1988, says the exceedingly high rent &#8211;$20,000, double what he has been paying&#8211;has forced him to give up the lease.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Notar, a managing partner at Nobu Restaurants is set to take over the space after the new year. Notar told <em>The New York Times<\/em> he hopes to keep the bar as &#8220;an old watering hole&#8221; with live music, but it&#8217;s unclear if he will work out a deal with Reed\u00a0 to continue using the Lenox Lounge name.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=9673ed62-d764-4c50-b69f-f9e3c86b5387\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Jazz Landmark Lenox Lounge will shut its doors forever New Year&#8217;s Eve, says longtime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101912,9989,384,124718155,678,39464011,18,34961255,3225],"tags":[124715024,935129,124718158,180664,7231840,98587,124715025,33609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19344"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19357,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19344\/revisions\/19357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}