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The housing projects will still be around. Those will never go away.
This is true of many NYC neighborhoods. UES, UWS, Chelsea, Downtown, LES, and in gentrified Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods such as LIC and Williamsburg. Being close to housing projects or having to pass them is no big deal.
I moved to Hamilton Heights in West Harlem about 15 years ago and wss pretty much the only white guy. Now a days the neighborhood is one of the nicest in the city with a great mix of professionals from many back grounds. With a great mix of bars and restaurants.
Thank god I bought when I did. The value of my place has doubled every three years.
Whites and blacks, living together, mass hysteria! How NYC should be.
In the past few years it's taken off. I've heard it's been made more famous by the Hamilton play. Also Columbia's expansion into Manhattanville is a factor as well.
I am very interested in seeing the 2020 results when they come out. Remember, Harlem is a BIG part of Manhattan.
I too would be curious in seeing the 2020 census numbers, but no doubt Hamilton Heights has had a huge influx of white people. On Riverbank State Park I've even seen white couples with small children.
Maybe its just me, but I haven't seen such a severe demographic shift when walking the streets of Harlem. Granted, I last did so in October, but, at least where I was (in the 125th Street area and around Lenox and 123rd), it still seemed plenty black; I see much more diversification in, say, brownstone Bed Stuy (at least in the central parts of Bed Stuy) than I see in Harlem. I think part of the problem is that many in the discussion of "Harlem isn't majority black" are focusing on "greater Harlem," which goes as far south as 96th Street: As Population Shifts in Harlem, Blacks Lose Their Majority - The New York Times As the NYT article points out, though, greater Harlem (which runs from from East 96th Street and West 106th Street to West 155th Street) hasn't been majority black since at least 2000. But that wasn't news (certainly not to me) as I've always considered "central Harlem" the heart of "black Harlem" and, indeed, Harlem in general.
I'm not alone in how I define Harlem's boundaries.
From theroot.com:
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Instead, [longtime residents] say, the boundaries of Harlem traditionally start at 110th Street and run to 155th, river to river, minus the terrain east of 5th Avenue, running from 96th Street roughly to 125th Street. This multi-block parcel has long been considered East Harlem, and occupied over the years by Spanish and other ethnic whites with never much of a black presence.
I too would be curious in seeing the 2020 census numbers, but no doubt Hamilton Heights has had a huge influx of white people. On Riverbank State Park I've even seen white couples with small children.
Yes, the 2010 Census numbers for Hamilton Heights supports my contention that much of the diversification of Harlem has been with Latinos, not non-Hispanic whites. This isn't to say that non-Hispanic whites aren't moving into Harlem, but, in terms of socioeconomic impact, Latinos fit more easily into what had long existed than many newer non-Hispanic whites do. Not to say that any of this is a bad thing. Just an observation of mine.
Yes, the 2010 Census numbers for Hamilton Heights supports my contention that much of the diversification of Harlem has been with Latinos, not non-Hispanic whites. This isn't to say that non-Hispanic whites aren't moving into Harlem, but, in terms of socioeconomic impact, Latinos fit more easily into what had long existed than many newer non-Hispanic whites do. Not to say that any of this is a bad thing. Just an observation of mine.
I'd say a big influx of non Hispanic whites has come into Hamilton Heights in the last couple of years as the real estate industry has been promoting the area quite a bit. Latinos have been in Hamilton Heights for decades.
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