How One Decision Destroyed America's Most Iconic Neighborhood: Harlem, New York
In 1925, Harlem had 215,000 people per square mile — three times denser than Manhattan today. It produced Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, the Savoy Ballroom, and the Apollo Theater. Then in 1951, one man published a 20-page report calling it a slum. What happened next erased 128,000 people in two decades. ErasedPlaces covers the forgotten history of American cities.
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