Braddock Hotel was a hotel at the corner of 126th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City, near the Apollo Theater. [1] The hotel bar was popular with black jazz musicians, [2] and Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington performed here. [3] Before he joined the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X (then known as Malcolm Little) often spent time at the hotel's bar. [4]
There was also a Braddock Hotel near the Southland ballroom in Warrenton Street, Boston. [5]
Braddock Hotel was a hotel at the corner of 126th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City, near the Apollo Theater. [1] The hotel bar was popular with black jazz musicians, [2] and Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington performed here. [3] Before he joined the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X (then known as Malcolm Little) often spent time at the hotel's bar. [4]
There was also a Braddock Hotel near the Southland ballroom in Warrenton Street, Boston. [5]