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
520 Park Avenue 520 Park Avenue 520 Park Avenue is a skyscraper located on East 60th Street and Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The building cost US$450 million to build. Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf of Zeckendorf Development developed the building. Like much of Stern's work, the building is New Classical in style. The exterior of the building is clad in limestone, similar to 15 Central Park West. The building is shorter than Stern's two other Manhattan skyscrapers, 30 Park Place and 220 Central Park South. The developer,