This is a great article.  # 1 It shows that thed Harlem Gentrification is starting to roll backward, and there will soon enough be some great properties at a discount for people who don't mind living in a predominantly Black Hood.  I grew up in Harlem after my mother migrated from my native Guyana to go to grad school.  Not knowing what is what, I was just a little Black kid playing with the other Black, Spanish and some white kids in the neighborhood.  There were all kinds, I grew up with Zulu Nation and Ball Busters, Stick Up Mob and people asking what size were your sneakers as prelude to robbery and the response was your size nigga.  But I went to private school, Bronx HS of Science and then Cornell.  But this park was always a constant in my life.  As I grew it was the no man's land barrier between Columbia and Harlem.  As I returned from College and worked and FDA II just down the block, the park became a symbol of the Gentrification of Harlem. After 20 years of neglect, I witnessed the transformation of the park, gone were broken cobble stairs and dilapidated infrastructure, and in comes new duck pond, statues whole new park to usher in whole new class of people to Harlem.  In comes the Yuppies, right into conflict with the Hood.  In the beginning it seemed as if the Yuppies would win out, but as a Teacher my students assured me they would not surrender the park.  And thus the Black families started to utilize the facilities. And the park became a mix.  But this summer the Hood took over, Barbecues are signature of Black folk enjoying themselves and loud music rang though the park. Most of it isn't violent - but the Projects are at the mouth of the Park and Manhattan Ave is a hustlers paradise. It Harlem what people to expect - Black to just vanish.  But Harlem is going through a new Renaissance - and African Renaissance just look at 116th - and I promise you it will not be a Gentrified Renaissance but one that will be meld of Middle Class Black folk that know how to flow, Africans with their own flow and the Hood.  Because that is what Harlem is all about.