In honor of Black History Month, visit the Queens home of one of the world's most renowned jazz musicians and entertainers: Louis Armstrong.
CORONA, Queens -- In honor of Black History Month, Eyewitness News is taking you to the home of one of the world's most renowned jazz musicians and entertainers: Louis Armstrong.
"He would play his trumpet on the terrace so you could be anywhere on the block in the neighborhood and hear him playing," Regina Bain said. "He didn't want to be in Manhattan because he'd get mobbed, but here he could walk down the street, he could talk with the kids, he could go to the barber, and it was a place of comfort," Bain said."Queens was where he wanted to be.""It's beautifully built and this is wood that's been lacquered," Bain said.
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