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By Matt Chaban 10/08/12 10:55am

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Hail, Victoria!

Harlem Heights: Two 26-Story Towers Shuffling Onto 125th Street Above Victoria Theater

It’s the biggest show on the block since James Brown played The Apollo.

At the end of August, Danforth Development announced that it had found a partner to move forward with its plans to develop two 26-story towers above the century-old Victoria Theater. The project has been in the works for years now, a pet project of local politician Keith Wright. A new hotel and apartment building are meant to sustain a clutch of cultural institutions on the first few buildings of the complex, and things were well underway until the recession hit.

Now, Exact Capital is pitching in $100 million to get the project off the ground. Way off the ground. Read More

By Eddie Small 4/26/12 3:50pm

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Harlem still has plenty of work to do. (Getty)

Can Old Harlem Be a Part of the Changes Sweeping the Neighborhood?

Martha Brown has worked in Harlem for more than three decades and has lived in the neighborhood for even longer. Over the last 15 years, she said she has seen a tremendous amount of change come to the area, some of which she characterized using that word that catches in the throats of so many New Yorkers: gentrification.

“People that were here, they’re not going to be able to stay,” she said. “They’re not going to be able to afford it.”

While developers of all stripes, from the institutional to the entrepreneurial, continue to beset Harlem with their developments, on Tuesday night, a group of them attempted to assuage the community’s concerns at a townhall meeting hosted by the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce. Change will not stop coming to the alternately famous and infamous New York neighborhood anytime soon.

But the presenters from five separate projects tried to convince the crowd of one things: these changes were going to include them. Even if those in attendance might never occupy one of these projects, they might at least hope to work at or otherwise benefit from one of them. Read More

By Michael Ewing 3/23/12 1:20pm

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I'm on top of the city, ma! (Streeteasy)

Who Really Wants to Spend Millions on ‘Central Park North?’

Of course, the view of Central Park from the southern ends are mind-blowing and dream-esque, but have you ever considered the views from the north side of the park?

Apartments with views overlooking the park sell for as much as $88 million and the penthouse at One57 is projected (read: hoping) to be sell for $115 million. But The Times raised an interesting question: What about the residence at the north end? Read More

By Elise Knutsen 10/31/11 11:47am

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A boarded apartment building in Harlem (photo from Harlem Bespoke)

Harlem Landlords Like Their Buildings Empty, Actually

While some say Harlem is the city’s new housing hotspot, hundreds of empty residential buildings bespeak serious issues still affecting the community, The New York Times reports. While storefronts in the neighborhood are generally bustling, an unsettling number of residences above are boarded up, and have been for decades. Business may be good on the ground floor, but landlords, often times wealthy real estate firms, have forsaken the residential apartments, leaving blighted buildings dotting the neighborhood. Read More

By Matt Chaban 11/08/10 5:13pm

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Bill Clinton Has Lavish Taste, Even in Office Space

While Bill Clinton’s decision to rent office space in Harlem may seem like a modest one–imagine if the former president using taxpayer money to pay Park Avenue prices–he still pays more, on a per-square-foot basis, than any of his presidential colleagues, even after renegogiating his lease for the top floor of 55 West 125th Street.

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