New York
IN 1969, Samuel Hargress bought his Harlem jazz bar and the surrounding building for US$35,000. Half a century later, he says real estate brokers keep pestering him to sell - for US$10 million.
Such is the breakneck pace of gentrification in one of the most storied neighbourhoods of Manhattan, for decades a heartland of African-American culture that critics now complain is undergoing intrusive - and whiter - change.
"All of my friends are millionaires now," says the 81-year-old Mr Hargress, sitting in the dimly lit family-run Paris Blues. "You couldn't imagine it - the situation then and now."
He moved to Harlem in 1960. Those were the days of the civil rights movement, of Martin Luther...