[NativeNewYorker]

*IF* the Wall Street/real estate bubble continues, gentrification will transform lots of row houses into upper-crust single family homes again. Apartments just north of Central Park now START @ $1 million.

Tenements/trashy apartment buildings/public housing will remain as islands of undesirability, as they do on the Upper West Side.

[durasell]

A lot of the old retail establishments have closed, which is a real loss (please, don't bring up Sylvia's -- the place was always over-rated). Basically Harlem won't be Harlem anymore...