Some Of The Harlem News That's Fit To Click: Science, Jazz and Gentrification
Two Harlem girls move on to Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge semifinals. [Post]
Will Friedwald recaps the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. [Sun]
About 100 protest in East Harlem over gentrification. [Newsday] and [Daily News]
Comments
How much low income housing do you need to have in one area?
They say that they are afraid that the community is going to be turned into one for the wealthy.. That is impossible if you have a thousand projects sitting below 116th and Lexington where they were protesting.
If you balance out the 1000's of people living in the projects with people who can afford higher rents right outside of that mess, then maybe there is a shot for some real gentrification over there
Posted by: getridoftheprojects | August 27, 2007 12:12 PM
The Eastside will take a little longer to assimilate thanks to the projects. You got people living in the neighborhood so afraid that they take a shuttle from the 96th street train to their luxury condo. Fuck them! Walk the streets and survive you bitches. You invest thousands of dollars in the area to flip your property or be there for the long haul? Affordable housing is needed not just for those below poverty level but for students and middle income workers,retired folks and those on fixed incomes. Fight on people!! There is a message being sent. West Harlem and East Harlem. Just because YOU can't afford to live on the east side, the Village, SOHO or Chelsea you move uptown. So be a part to the culture and area and add to it not take away and dilute so much that it resembles below 96th street. Now bottled water will be 3 bucks uptown. SAVE THE PROJECTS-SAVE THE WORLD!!!
Posted by: HARLEM OBSERVER | August 28, 2007 10:38 PM
This is a joke, right? The projects are destroying the world....not saving it...
The project mentality is what is keeping the people down...
Surely you want your people to eventually rise up, don't you? or do you want generation after generation to be ignorant...
Posted by: getridoftheprojects | August 31, 2007 08:31 AM