Submitted by DSC, Jul 28, 2007 12:21

This info is just media hype to try to cover up the recent violence reported on 125th street. The resurgence is at a snail pace. All the quoted developments are still brownfields and/or vacant buildings. These sites have been dormant since the last news report.

There are virtually no neighborhood amenities within walking distance. No Wholefoods markets, no gourmet sandwich shoppes, no shoe repairs, no fur cleaners, lack of restaurant variety,. You"ll have to walk to 125th street or in future 20 blocks north to 145 for Starbucks.

Biggest complaint of the " new people" in Harlem is lack of neigborhood amenities, schools performance and cultural clashes. And the " new people" are not staying and taking roots. They don't participate in tenant associations, community boards, and politics. They sleep here and go downtown to work, eat and play.

That's why Harlem community as a whole will become non-existent. There will continue to carved communities so developers can make a return on investment and isolate their products from a "bad image"

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