After African-American composer Will Marion Cook's old house sold for a record-setting $2.9M last week, residents of Strivers Row in Harlem are worried about their area's characterand, of course, impending unaffordability. That's contrary to the history and even the very name of the neighborhood. Says one resident: "After a point, only certain wealthy people can afford to move in. ... I don't know that the new people moving in are Strivers. They have made it." [WSJ; previously]
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