Harlem

(New York City): From Dutch Nieuw Haarlem (“new Haarlem”), the original name of the area under the Dutch control, after Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː(ɹ)ləm/

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Harlem

1. A neighborhood in northern Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York State, United States, currently known for its black population.
   • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 159:

     This really was Harlem, and now all the stories which I had heard of the city-within-a-city leaped alive in my mind.

2. Obsolete form of Haarlem: a city in Randstad, North Holland, Netherlands.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Hamler, Mahler, Mahrle, harmel