New York's Harlem is getting posh and it's getting pushback from poorer residents
The heartland of African-American culture is undergoing intrusive - and whiter - change, critics say
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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.
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