Melba’s Restaurant opened its doors in 2005 and has come to be regarded as the premier comfort food destination in New York City.
A memorial at the African Burial Ground National Monument honors the memories of the estimated 15,000 Africans buried at the approximately seven-acre site in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The site contains the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th centuries in a portion of what was the largest colonial-era cemetery for people of African descent, some free, most enslaved.[6] Historians estimate there may have been 15,000–20,000 burials in what was called the "Negroes Burial Ground" in the 1700s. The site's excavation and study was called "the most important historic urban archeological project in the United States."[7] The Burial Ground site is New York's earliest known African-American "cemetery"; studies show an estimated 15,000 African American people were buried here.
Sylvia Woods, the "Queen of Soulfood," is the founder of the world famous Sylvia's Restaurant, located in the historical village of Harlem, since 1962.
Negril is a privately held, family run, full service restaurant and caterer inspired and founded by Marva Layne.
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