An Old Look for the New Harlem
Architecture
By JAMES GARDNER
February 14, 2006
To a degree unimaginable only a few years ago, gentrification is making itself comfortable throughout Harlem, especially in West Harlem around 118th Street. Nothing drives this home more than the gleaming new premises of some of New York’s most renowned realtors - Prudential Douglas Elliman, Corcoran, and Warburg. At the same time, however, these forces are converging to conserve, to re-create, or, where necessary, to invent an older Harlem, one that predates the arrival of large numbers of blacks in the neighborhood, and was built for and by wealthy whites like those who are now beginning to move in.
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