Gentrification

Anti-gentrification festival draws small crowd

Organizers of the 24th annual Anti-Gentrification Community Awareness Festival, which was held on 124th Street between Broadway and Riverside, said that despite the low turnout, fighting rapid neighborhood change is seen as an important cause.

By Elaine Wang | Oct 11 01:40 am ET

In Harlem, a vacancy leaves room for questions

The sounds, sights, and smells of Convent Avenue—a soprano’s melody echoing from a 4-story brownstone, a bus depot polluting the air, flags of the laundromat’s grand opening—fill a street of Harlem resistant to change.

By Sam Levin | Apr 29 12:33 am ET

Confessions of a Radical White Gentrifier

On paper, it seems like I’ve done everything right. I attend regular protests on 125th Street, I can cite Huey P.

By Andrew Lyubarsky | Oct 22 06:56 pm ET

Harlem Residents Consider Effects, Meaning of Gentrification

In his pink polo shirt and stylishly ripped jeans, 43-year-old Arthur Hoyt, Jr. is an archetypical local resident.

By Zack Hoopes | Apr 28 10:50 pm ET

Across 110th Street?

Bobby Womack’s 1972 hit “Across 110th Street” describes a Harlem that is both very different and strikingly similar to the one that many of us at Columbia (don’t) know.

By Christien Tompkins | Mar 5 10:29 pm ET

Manhattanville in a Global Context

As Jonathan Hollander argued in a recent piece (“Manhattanville’s Forgotten Beneficiaries,” Jan.

By Andrew Lyubarsky | Jan 29 08:33 pm ET

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