![]() Event highlights will include: We know you love all things Harlem, that’s how we know you’ll love the Shop Harlem Virtual Fair. HBA is pleased to partner with AT&T and Experience Harlem to bring you the holiday event of the season! We know you love all things Harlem, that’s how we know you’ll love the Shop Harlem Virtual Fair. This will be an interactive social distancing event with lots of surprises and unique opportunities in store. We are 2 days away from Harlem’s most creative virtual event this season! The article concludes by essentializing Black New Yorkers as part of a “shifting and uncertain people”, in order to rationalize the white racial anxiety expressed in the article. Without the ability to freely choose where they rented, Black New Yorkers were more easily exploited by Harlem’s landlords who could charge significantly more than they would have been able to charge white tenants who could rent in other New York neighborhoods. Property values were mentioned in the sub heading, and used to both justify racial covenants and to describe the impact a multi-racial neighborhood would have on white property owners:Īnd, while we know that the work put into the organizations, alliances, agreements, and covenants failed, in the end, the cumulative impact was a self-fulfilling prophecy of overcrowded Black buildings, deprived of capital (improvements) with exorbitant rents. The offensive language used by the NYT like “menace” and “invasion”, was tightly interwoven with financial anxiety. As Black New Yorkers (and increasing numbers of southern refugees from racial terror) moved into more Harlem blocks, white residents and property owners began to organize and coordinate their segregationist behavior into compacts and agreements. Before the first decade of the 20th century, housing segregation was conducted on an ad hoc basis, by individual supers and landlords. While America’s “Paper of Record” is an invaluable source for exploring the history of Harlem and beyond, the deeply racist language found in the New York Times’ archives continues to shock.Ĭlearly, racially motivated discrimination and segregation has always been a part of the Harlem real estate market. Racist Coverage at The New York Times – 1911 ![]() Odyssey House also said that this building will be staffed by two Odyssey House people 24/7. ![]() This new building will act more like a normal rental where tenants have individual and renewable leases. Graduates of Odyssey House programming will live on East 126th Street who have progressed beyond transitional housing. Odyssey House is building (first knocking down) 52-54 East 126th Street and reimaginging it as a ~20 single unit supportive housing facility. They need a count of how many plan on attending in person. Please use the above link to register for the 25th Precinct’s Community Council meeting – October 20th at 6:00 PM. Pump trucks are engaged: Sign Up for the 25th Precinct Community Council Meeting Odyssey House – a major social services provider in East Harlem (one of their buildings is shown below from the Metro-North platform) – is advancing its project on East 126th Street.Ĭoncrete is being poured. ![]() Source: New York City Department of Investigation Odyssey House on East 126 Advances ![]() Rate of executed evictions ordered by the New York City Housing Court, including those pending and scheduled as of December 31, per 10,000 housing units.Įviction data are reported by New York City Marshals and gathered from NYC Open Data. ![]()
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