Central Avenue Jazz Festival Central Avenue Jazz Festival The Central Avenue Jazz Festival is a yearly annual free jazz festival that takes place the last weekend in the month of July in the Southern section of Los Angeles. Central Avenue, after which the area is named, was in the 1930s and 1940s a vibrant center for jazz. At this time the infamous covenant line along Washington Boulevard demarcated the areas where African Americans were allowed to live. Even the giants of jazz music, such as Duke Ellington were allowed to play in Hollywood and other areas, but they could not stay there. They often
Fourth Avenue/Ninth Street (New York City Subway) Fourth Avenue. Fourth Avenue/Ninth Street (New York City Subway) Fourth Avenue/Ninth Street is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the elevated IND Culver Line and the underground BMT Fourth Avenue Line. It is located at the intersection of Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn and served by the: The BMT Fourth Avenue Line station was built first, opening on June 22, 1915 as part of the line's extension to 59th Street. The IND Culver Line station opened on October 7, 1933 as part of its extension to its "temporary" terminal at Church Avenue. A