{"id":1871,"date":"2009-04-07T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T04:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2010-09-03T18:32:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T22:32:42","slug":"have-faith-harlem-will-grow-despite-the-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Have faith: Harlem will grow despite the downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HarlemGuy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/realestate\/realestatecolumn\/55649\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Magazine\u00a0<\/a>reports that the Harlem real estate market in experiencing a severe downturn. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While this is true there is also plenty of evidence that Harlem will continue to adapt, grow and thrive in a number ways. \u00a0<strong>This is Manhattan<\/strong>. \u00a0There will always be an over-supply of people looking for affordable housing. \u00a0<strong>Harlem is on the island of Manhattan.<\/strong> \u00a0Which means no long\/expensive commutes on subways or trains between boroughs. \u00a0<strong>This is Harlem.<\/strong> \u00a0Despite it&#8217;s description as a less than desirable &#8220;ghetto&#8221; by an uninformed guest on a recent <a title=\"Chelsea Lately\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/on\/shows\/chelsea\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea Lately<\/a> show, it&#8217;s a cool place to live, steeped in history, full of life and culture, and full of local flavor which is refreshing in what is fast becoming a &#8220;big box store&#8221; world&#8221;. \u00a0 It&#8217;s also full of entrepreneurs who have and will continue to make their way to Harlem and try new culinary, retail and lifestyle experiences that will further enhance the neighborhood. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every time I walk the streets of Harlem &#8211; and I do so regularly, I am simply amazed at the variety of people and cultures. \u00a0I love living here. \u00a0I have always loved it here. \u00a0That&#8217;s why I moved here. \u00a0That&#8217;s why I intend on staying here. \u00a0And I look forward to helping our community grow, one penny at a time &#8211; if that&#8217;s what it takes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HarlemGuy New York Magazine\u00a0reports that the Harlem real estate market in experiencing a severe downturn&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155],"tags":[1657587,124718158,437618,37970920,124718140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}