Audubon Ballroom
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The Audubon Ballroom was a theatre and ballroom located in Washington Heights, a neighborhood north of Harlem, on the island of Manhattan, notoriously known as the site of Malcolm X's assassination on February 21, 1965.
In 1992, Columbia University began the process of demolishing the Audubon Ballroom and replacing it with the Audubon Business and Technology Center, a university-related biotechnology research park that is a public-private partnership between Columbia University Medical Center and the New York state and city governments. Historic preservation groups unsuccessfully sued to prevent its demolition, and a group of Columbia University students occupied Hamilton Hall on campus in protest. Eventually, the University reached a compromise with local community groups. Under the agreement, the University restored a portion of the original façade of the Audubon Ballroom and built a museum inside to honor Malcolm X. The museum, the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, opened in 2005.
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- James Renner, "History of WaHI: Audubon Ballroom", Washington Heights & Inwood Online, May 2003.
- "Columbia's History of Displacing Communities ", Stop Columbia - a website of the Coalition to Preserve Community.
- "Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center Launches", Columbia News, May 17, 2005.
- Multimedia Kiosks for the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, Columbia University.
- Audubon Business and Technology Center
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