125th Street

Voices Of The Everyday People, a community-based advocacy organization, plans to file a lawsuit Monday challenging the Department of City Planning’s 125th Street rezoning proposal, the organization announced at a meeting Saturday afternoon.

Racial and religious tensions took the forefront at Saturday’s Coalition to Save Harlem meeting, where community members protested the 125th Street rezoning proposal to a tense crowd.

The Department of City Planning is displacing residents, artists and businesses as it allows the real-estate industry to score big on 125th Street.

The Harlem Restoration Project’s small office may be easy to miss on one of West Harlem’s busiest streets, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, but the work that goes on inside has had a huge impact on the lives of those the organization was built to serve.

Before a raucous, frequently hostile crowd, the Department of City Planning presented its proposal to rezone 125th Street at a Community Board 10 public hearing Wednesday night.