{"id":26352,"date":"2014-01-05T19:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T00:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26352"},"modified":"2014-01-05T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T00:56:40","slug":"film-changing-face-harlem-shawn-batey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26352","title":{"rendered":"FILM: Changing Face of Harlem by Shawn Batey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-05-at-7.42.47-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-26357\" alt=\"The Changing Face of Harlem Via HarlemCondoLife.com\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-05-at-7.42.47-PM-1024x629.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-05-at-7.42.47-PM-1024x629.png 1024w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-05-at-7.42.47-PM-300x184.png 300w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-05-at-7.42.47-PM-100x61.png 100w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-05-at-7.42.47-PM-800x491.png 800w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-05-at-7.42.47-PM.png 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Changing Face of Harlem is a new one-hour documentary that examines the revitalization of Harlem told through the deeply personal stories of its residents, small business owners, politicians, developers, and clergy.<\/p>\n<p>The piece takes a critical look at Harlem\u2019s history, early development, and its present transformation, and\u00a0highlights how a community deals with the challenge of maintaining identity while accepting change.<\/p>\n<p>Three central characters serve as a thread throughout the film providing personal insight into the changes.<\/p>\n<p>Frank, affectionately known as the \u201cmayor of 114th street,\u201d has lived on the same block since the 1940. \u00a0Tekima, a florist located in Mart 125 located across from the Apollo Theater on 125th street, opened in 1986. \u00a0Asadah, an educator who teaches youth in East Harlem.<\/p>\n<p>Other contributors include Congressman Charlie Rangel, Rev. Calvin Butts of Abyssinian Baptist Church, local architect Zevilla Preston, Nellie Bailey, Director of Harlem Tenants Alliance, Karen Phillips, co-founder of Abyssinian Development Corporation, and Russell and Maurice Grey, father and son owners of Edward Sisters Realty, a black owned and operated agency that has serviced the Harlem community for three generations.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/changingfaceofharlem.com\/?page_id=29\">About The Film | Changing Face of Harlem<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Changing Face of Harlem is a new one-hour documentary that examines the revitalization of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2290,101912,179,103804,1098,384,124716360,12756786,398,3225],"tags":[77809719,124716367,4342492,124716363,69060,124716373,124716365,94604,124718158,13611479,124716370,93470272,124716371,11102433,124716369,124716366,124716372,124716361,124716362,124716364,124715498,124716368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352"}],"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=26352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26358,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352\/revisions\/26358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}