52nd Street is a -long one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City. A short section of it was known as the city's center of jazz performance from the 1930s to the 1950s. Jazz center Following the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, 52nd Street replaced 133rd Street as "Swing Street" of the city. The blocks of 52nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue became renowned for the abundance of jazz clubs and lively street life. The street was convenient to musicians playing on Broadway and the 'legitimate' nightclubs and was also the site of a CBS studio. Musicians who played for others in the early evening played for themselves on 52nd Street. In the period from 1930 through the early 1950s, 52nd Street clubs hosted such jazz musicians as Louis Prima, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Trummy Young, Harry Gibson, Nat Jaffe, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Marian McPartland, and many more. Although musicians from all schools performed there, after Minton's Playhouse in uptown Harlem, 52nd Street was the second most important place for the dissemination of bebop;. In fact, a tune called "52nd Street Theme" by Thelonious Monk became a bebop anthem and jazz standard. Virtually every great jazz player and singer of the era performed at clubs: 52nd, between 6th & 7th Kelly's Stable, 137 W 52 The Hickory House, 144 W 52 52nd, between 5th & 6th 21 Club, 21 W 52 (1929–2020) Leon & Eddie's, 33 W 52 Famous Door 35 W 52 (Mar 1935–May 1936) 66 W 52 (Dec 1937–Nov 1943) 201 W 52 (Nov 1943–1944) 56 W 52 (1947–1950) Note: The Cotton Club (unconnected to the defunct club with the same name) opened in 1943 on the site formerly occupied by the Famous Door; the club was initially managed by Russell Carter Jimmy Ryan's, 53 W 52 (1934–1962) 154 W 54th (1962–1983) Spotlight Club, 56 W 52 Club Samoa 62 W 52 (1940–1943) became a strip club in 1943 The Onyx 35 W 52 (1927–1933) (owned by Joe Helbock) 72 W 52 (1933–1937) (owned by Joe Helbock) 62 W 52 (1937–1939) (owned by Joe Helbock, et al.) 57 W 52 (1942–1949) (unrelated to the original Onyx) became a strip club in 1949 Yacht Club, 66 W 52 Club Downbeat, 66 W 52 Club Carousel, 66 W 52 3 Deuces, 72 W 52 Disc jockey Symphony