This series of Bloomingdale residents who shaped our world will be installed in different area of the neighborhood.

Now on view at: 

Frederick Douglass Playground 102 St & Amsterdam Avenue

The residents represented in 2023:

Elizabeth Acevedo Dominican-American poet and author
Mario Bauzá (1911–1993), Afro-Cuban jazz, Latin and jazz musician
John Coltrane (1926 –1967), American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer
José Feliciano (1945-), Puerto Rican musician, singer & composer,
Abbey Lincoln (1930–2010), American jazz vocalist , songwriter civil rights activist
Constance Baker Motley ( née Baker; 1921 –2005), American jurist and politician
Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), American artist and landscape architect
Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967), American jazz composer, pianist and arranger

The residents represented in 2024:

Alvin Ailey, (January 5, 1931- December 1, 1989), American dancer
Ben E. King,(September 28, 1938- April 30, 2015) American soul singer
Duke Ellington, (1899-1974) Jazzman,
The Malagon Sisters, Dominican singers & dancers
Ismael Rivera,(1931-1987) Puerto Rican singer
Bernardo Palombo, Latin American visual artist, musician
Angelo Romano, American visual artist