Billie Holiday’s residence

[286 West 142nd Street, Harlem, New York City, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]

“At the height of her career she lived at 286 West 142nd Street”: The Encyclopedia of New York City (2010). And there she is in the 1940 Manhattan telephone directory:



Those buildings are gone now.

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February 13: An assidious reader found the apartment number: 2E. And found Billie and her mother Sadie in the 1940 census. Also in 2E: a lodger, Irene Wilson, née Kitchings, co-composer of “Some Other Spring” and other songs. Thanks, reader.

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All OCA Billie Holiday posts (Pinboard) : More photographs from the NYC Municipal Archives (Pinboard)