An Ossining Culinary Reflection
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Located in the Hudson Valley, Westchester County, New York is home to the infamous Sing Sing Prison. The Metro North commuter train carries travelers twenty-five miles north along the Hudson River, from Harlem to the village of Ossining—the village itself was previously called Sing Sing, named after the Sing Sing Indians who inhabited that part of the Hudson Valley—where the storied correctional facility lies. Just blocks from the prison was a popular African American neighborhood bar and grill called Bar Harbor. Many of the towns African American residents migrated to Ossining taking better paying jobs in the north than they could find in the south. They also found it a place where they had a better chance for social mobility than the Jim Crow south offered.
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