In the 50s the streets of all black Harlem were safe enough to walk after dark. Rich people went there for the restaurants and night clubs. There were fabulous jazz clubs where those who could afford it went to see Louis Armstrong and Lena Horne.
The dangerous places were Italian Irish and later Puerto Rican.
Harlem is still a great place to live
Even the Clinton's moved there
No...Bill Clinton once had an office there.
The Clinton's official residence is a mansion in Chappaqua, NY
Harlem is far from a slum today
You know, sometimes it pays for you to remain silent because you always find ways of
hurting your own arguments:
No Longer Majority Black, Harlem Is in Transition
But the neighborhood is in the midst of a profound and accelerating shift. In greater Harlem, which runs river to river, and from East 96th Street and West 106th Street to West 155th Street, blacks are no longer a majority of the population — a shift that actually occurred a decade ago, but was largely overlooked.
By 2008, their share had declined to 4 in 10 residents. Since 2000, central Harlem’s population has grown more than in any other decade since the 1940s, to 126,000 from 109,000, but its black population — about 77,000 in central Harlem and about twice that in greater Harlem — is smaller than at any time since the 1920s.
