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everything changes. styles come and go. you will have a building or two or some random fad that was popular at the time be played off with a restaurant or something. generations move on. i may as well ask why the romans no longer fight as they did during the gladiator days. if tradition held out, the NFL would actually be based over there instead of here. what i find hilarious is people expect time and traditions to stand still. out with the old, in with the new. everything is temporary.
outside of pop culture, harlem is a dangerous area. it was even more dangerous a generation ago with crack everywhere. when i visit now, i do not feel safe there after dusk. rents are lower in harlem than in desired parts of nyc (80s and midtown and lower). spanish harlem is even worse than harlem. unless the population becomes educated and changes the way it lives or more job opportunities come along, it will stay a ghetto. no amount of "art" is going to change a place because art is dead. it's the people who roam the streets that you have to deal with. art sits in a textbook or some wall somewhere and does absolutely nothing. you also need an education to appreciate art, something the residents (majority of 'em anyway) of harlem and especially spanish harlem are not interested in. to them, art and culture is loitering at 2 am with bachata blasting out onto the streets.
But how can you convince someone to buy something of their dreams in a ghetto? My mom till this day still wouldn't move to bed stuy. When people buy their not expecting to live in a high crime area for the most part. Plus a lot of people thought NYC wouldn't recover. I jnow deep down inside my mom feels a type of way for not taking that opportunity.
You have to have the intuition that one day, in the ghetto, things are gonna change for the better. not only that, but you also have the have the common knowledge of knowing that renting is never the best option.
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