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Hip-Hop's Birthday / Sedgwick Avenue Celebration

Name: Hip-Hop's Birthday / Sedgwick Avenue Celebration
Start: 2026-08-11T22:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-08-11T22:00:00.000Z
Location: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue (the building) + community block parties

Annual celebration of hip-hop's birthday at the South Bronx building where DJ Kool Herc threw the back-to-school party credited with launching the genre on August 11, 1973. Block parties, DJs, community events. Often coincides with Universal Hip Hop Museum programming.