Credit: AP Photo/Stuart Ramson Find all the transport options for your trip from Apollo Theatre (42nd Street) to Jackson … Taj Jackson has blasted the team at the Apollo theatre in New York for not featuring The Jackson 5 in their HBO documentary about the history of the iconic venue.

The Apollo Theater is a music hall located at 253 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Rome2rio makes travelling from Apollo Theatre (42nd Street) to Jackson Heights easy. 1968 Taj Jackson "wants answers" after a HBO documentary about the iconic Apollo theatre failed to mention The Jackson 5.

"They couldn't pay their hotel bill," recalled Bobby Schiffman, whose family owned Harlem's Apollo Theatre in 1967.

Jackson first performed at the Apollo with the Jackson 5 at the age of 9, when their wining performance on "Amateur Night" in 1969 catapulted the group to stardom. The Jackson 5 play shows in malls and venues mainly in the state of Illinois before 1968 and later they play clubs and theaters in Chicago and New York for two years, before the band signs with Motown in March 1969. Michael Jackson's most important trip to New York was, in many ways, his first one.

The Jackson 5 win the Superdog Finals in Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in New York on 14 February, 196.

Rome2rio is a door-to-door travel information and booking engine, helping you get to and from any location in the world. The Apollo’s amateur night audience was known to performers as the toughest audience around. In August 1967, The Jackson 5 performed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem for their amateur night. Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 is the debut studio album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band the Jackson 5, released on the Motown label on December 12, 1969. Many performers had been discovered here and it was an important night for the young group.