The 5Boro Institute just released an issues-focused survey asking 3,000 New Yorkers about the most important challenges facing our city. It was no surprise that concerns about the mental health crisis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

From prophecy to preservation : Harlem as temporal vector / Andrew M. Fearnley -- Class, gender, and community in "Harlem sketches" : representing black urban modernity in interwar African American ...

There is no other space quite like Lizzy Okpo’s ingenious brainchild, The Oma, Shop I and II. The Oma, Shop II, the second of ...