When my movie El Barrio Tours: Gentrification in East Harlem was selected for the San Diego Latino Film Festival last year, local activists Jerry Guzman-Vergara and Georgette Gomez, toured me around ...

“Now, East Harlem is a hot property,” Barkley said. “We have to bring the focus back to the people who were originally here and went through all of this. We have to make sure that the people who were ...

A view into the window of Art in Flux during the opening for Stan Squirewell inn September of this year (Photo by Peter Cooper, courtesy of Leanne Stella) How does one defend one’s turf — the place ...

There Goes the ’Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up; By Lance Freeman; Temple University Press; $25.95 In today’s New York, “gentrification” can be a dirty word. It conjures up images of ...

Thirty years ago, West Harlem tenants lost the Harlem Urban Development Corporation, one of the area’s most prominent advocates for housing equality. In its absence, a new organization of community ...

Annotation In this revealing book, Lance Freeman sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: how does gentrification actually affect residents of neighborhoods in transition? To find out, Freeman ...

Harlem, USA, has been the breathing ground for Black culture and lifestyle since the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. Thanks to staple locations such as the Apollo Theater, Sylvia’s Restaurant ...