The long-awaited Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx is expected to open its doors in about a year.<\/p>\n
To help raise $50 million for construction and programming, the museum will host its second gala Wednesday at Cipriani Wall Street, bringing together members of the hip-hop community and business leaders.<\/p>\n
Several honorees will be recognized at the event, including Bronx Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, rappers Fat Joe and Slick Rick and radio legend Kool DJ Red Alert.<\/p>\n
“It’s our pre-opening gala, so it’s a fundraiser to support the museum,” said museum CEO Rocky Bucano. “As we get prepared to open our doors next fall, this is probably our most important fundraiser of the year.”<\/p>\n
Located on Exterior Street near East 149th Street in the South Bronx, the museum continues interior construction as part of a larger development that also includes new affordable housing units.<\/p>\n
The Universal Hip Hop Museum is being billed as the official museum of record for the genre.<\/p>\n
“It’s 55,000 square feet and it’s dedicated to the preservation and celebration of hip-hop on a global level, not just from the Bronx level or New York City level. We’re celebrating the global history of hip-hop,” Bucano said.<\/p>\n
The Hip Hop Museum is slated to open in October of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long-awaited Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx is expected to open its doors in about a year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[472,25,128,471,157,9,24,12,63,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-27069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-app-arts-entertainment","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-bronx","11":"tag-dean-meminger","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}