Plagued by poverty, drugs, and violence, 129th street is undergoing a dramatic transformation as a revival sweeps across Harlem.
"As the boom fueled the real estate market, and the city failed to buildmuch new affordable housing, prices in better neighborhoods zoomed out ofreach. At the same time, housing officials, community leaders and landlords,determined to break Harlem's resolute concentration of poverty, to transforma ghetto into a neighborhood, were recruiting a new type of resident...The years have brought unprecedented economic growth; a startling decreasein crime; the ebb of crack; the remaking of welfare; an influx of immigrants; acity drive to redevelop the housing stock under its control; and the rise ofneighborhood organizations focused on restoration."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
FULL STORY: Embodied by One Block, Harlem's Ravaged Heart Sees a Revival

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