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 ...

Harlem residents gathered outside President Clinton’s office yesterday to protest against the former president as a symbol of Harlem’s gentrification and the displacement of its residents. The Harlem ...

The dreaded Christopher Columbus Syndrome is rearing its ugly head in Harlem, with some developers and real estate agents trying to change the historical name to “SoHa,” short for South Harlem. The ...

With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today’s Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. In The Roots of Urban Renaissance: ...

“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 ...

Last weekend, a friend of mine was accosted on 125th Street in Harlem. In broad daylight, about five black men wearing Black Panther-like uniforms surrounded him and demanded to know why he – a white ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...