Harlem Is Hot Again

Posted by: Peter Coy on September 18, 2006

Harlem is hot again, says this article in a recent issue of The New York Sun. Things were already looking up back in 2001, when Bill Clinton put his post-presidential office in Harlem.harlem.jpg
Now, as New York City’s economy continues to grow and crime rates across the city get lower and lower, development in the historically black upper Manhattan neighborhood is burgeoning. According to the Sun article:

Blumenfeld Development Group and its joint venture partner Forest City Ratner announced that Target has signed a lease for a 135,000-square-foot mega store. It will serve as an anchor, along with Home Depot, at East River Plaza, a new shopping center located on the site of Washburn Wire factory site (which has been vacant for more than a quarter of a century).
The site consists of six acres adjacent to the FDR and river between 116th and 119th Street. East River Plaza is a multi-level 500,000-square-foot retail project with an attached 1,248-space parking facility spanning three city blocks.

Reader Comments

FiveMZNYC

September 21, 2006 9:26 AM

Harlem has been hot for awhile. All it takes is a look at the open houses and development going on from West 110th Street (Central Park North) to 125th Street. There's constuction everywhere. The faces of the commuters in the subway stations are different as well. Sidewalk cafes, pet stores and organic food stores are well entrenched in the community now.

new condos

September 30, 2006 1:49 PM

Yes...very hot indeed. Athena Group out of NY is developming 111 Central Park North at the corner of Malcom X Blvd. We got to shoot that property a few weeks back and hope to release 111 CPN the movie this week. Last I heard sales are booming! A definitly project/area to watch.

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