Swing can always be the thing at Harlem’s famed Cotton Club – Columbia University said yesterday it won’t seek to raze the club as part of its northward expansion.
Columbia had planned to tear down the club, near the west end of 125th Street, and turn its tiny triangular lot into a vest-pocket park.
The club is successor to the famed Prohibition-era Cotton Club, which operated at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue.
The current Cotton Club has been in business 29 years – longer than the original.
City officials are weighing zoning changes to 17 acres of land in Harlem to allow Columbia’s expansion, which would be completed in two phases in 2015 and 2030