?Aaron Davis Hall is an impressive facility near the campus of City College on 135th Street & Convent Road. It’s Harlem’s principal center for the performing arts, the Uptown equivalent of Merkin Hall at Lincoln Center or the Brooklyn Academy of Music,
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