Buying Up
A sweatshirt for $220. An apartment for well over $2 million. Welcome to Harlem?
An upscale neighborhood boutique where a suit starts at $1,000 is at the center of a New York Times story that not only looks at who's buying these high-ticket items (answer is: Whites and Blacks) but examines the notion that African-American culture is at an economic crossroads.
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Hi Rachel - thanks so much for highlighting the article. As an avid reader of your blog, I can't help but gush over the writeup of N Harlem - a fantastic store that (as the Times mentions) carries Manhattan Diffusion - also handmade in Harlem! Go Uptown Go.
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