Angry Bagel
The gentrification backlash here in Harlem is making news headlines overseas. Publications in Australia and Europe have picked up the story about last week's angry protest over former President Bill Clinton's Harlem office.
Organized by the Harlem Tenants Council, approximatley 40 African Americans demonstrated outside the 125th street building that houses the former president's staff, charging that his move here has increased the price of homes beyond their reach; They say rents have risen by as much as 100 percent.
Organized by the Harlem Tenants Council, approximatley 40 African Americans demonstrated outside the 125th street building that houses the former president's staff, charging that his move here has increased the price of homes beyond their reach; They say rents have risen by as much as 100 percent.
posted by Rachel Natalie Klein at 8:39 AM
3 Comments:
The newspapers are sensationalizing as usual, real life is not simply so black and white.
Ask local residents; you will get a whole range of opinions.
As usual, the extremists claim to represent the majority.
Dozens of protestors do not represent the majority of Harlem.
the other thing for people to remember is this rent increase is taking place all over manhattan--if rent prices were increasing this much accross all of NYC but NOT in harlem, what would that say about the state of harlem?
i dont think anyone thinks a booming real estate market that leaves harlem behind is a good thing!?!?!? or maybe they do-but those people dont have the best interest of harlem at heart either!
this is what a free market does. this is what capitalism is. no one said it was nice, or pretty and often i kicks SOMEONE in the head to get where it's going. but it's happening JUST in harlem!
if it was MAYBE you could stop it/change it. but you cant reverse this tide...it's too big.
talk to people from co-op city down town all the way up to washington heights! talk to people in the bronx! redhook, green point, all over brooklyn. lower income people are being displaced across this city.
bill clinton moving to harlem is not the problem people.
I believe the article also indicated 40 people protested...any article that tries to imply 40 people represent a a consensus of Harlem is truly a sensational rag.
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