Where Spike Lee fuels up on Harlem soul food before sliding into his $300K courtside seats at MSG.
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Where Spike Lee fuels up on Harlem soul food before sliding into his $300K courtside seats at MSG.
Spike Lee has been the most prominent celebrity at Knicks games for four decades — he bought his first season tickets in 1985 and graduated to VIP courtside in the mid-1990s, where he now spends roughly $300,000 a season to sit on Celebrity Row at Madison Square Garden. When Spike isn't yelling at refs from the baseline, he's anchored in Harlem, the neighborhood that made him. Sylvia's, opened by Sylvia Woods on Lenox Avenue in 1962, has long been Spike's plate of choice: the director has featured the restaurant in his work and treats it as a Harlem institution as enduring as his Knicks fandom. Tourists doing the Spike Lee tour can pair a Sylvia's plate of smothered chicken with a Knicks game ten subway stops south at MSG.
Team/Artist: New York Knicks game
Category: restaurant
Where Spike Lee Goes: Sylvia's Restaurant
restaurant: 328 Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Ave), Harlem, NY 10027
The undisputed 'Queen of Soul Food' in Harlem, opened by Sylvia Woods on Lenox Avenue in 1962. Sixty-plus years of fried chicken, cornbread, and Harlem culture under one roof.
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Spike Lee is known to frequent Sylvia's Restaurant (328 Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Ave), Harlem, NY 10027). The undisputed 'Queen of Soul Food' in Harlem, opened by Sylvia Woods on Lenox Avenue in 1962. Sixty-plus years of fried chicken, cornbread, and Harlem culture under one roof.
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