Into the secret city
‘I didn’t mean to get you in trouble,” is a refrain Ray Carney has heard from his cousin Freddie for most of their lives. But as the 1950s wane, the stakes are far higher than the consequences of childhood high jinks, Ray is the proprietor of Carney’s Furniture on 125th Street – an artery flowing through the cultural epicentre of New York’s African-American life.
