{"id":26797,"date":"2014-02-17T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26797"},"modified":"2014-02-17T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:02:23","slug":"nytimes-harlem-good-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26797","title":{"rendered":"Quote: Is Harlem \u2018Good\u2019 Now? (Marcus Samuelsson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/340x245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16704\" alt=\"Michelle Obama, Marcus Samuelsson via harlemcondolife\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/340x245.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/340x245.jpg 340w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/340x245-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I travel all over the world for work and I am constantly asked to define Harlem. What\u2019s it like, people ask. Is it cool? Is it safe? When I go to places like the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to speak among celebrated thinkers and leaders, I\u2019m often asked: Is Harlem good now? I always have to pause before answering. Good compared with what? To when? These questions all miss the mark. Is Harlem good now? That is a question loaded with long-held ideas about race and class, one that dismisses the complex, vital history of this neighborhood and its people, their contributions to civil rights and art, under one word: \u201cbad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the following op ed: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1fnop73\">http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1fnop73<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find books and more by and about Marcus and Harlem on HarlemCondoLife&#8217;s new and improved store located <a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/the-harlemcondolife-store\/#.UwI-3EJdV8s\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I travel all over the world for work and I am constantly asked to define&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103804,12756786,124715115],"tags":[15672717,77809719,124716523,124716517,124716527,124716525,124716515,124716529,124716516,124718158,13611479,93470272,124716522,150491,574741,2339961,46628786,124718173,124716519,124716521,11577850,124718170,124716524,124716518,1929006,5016869,124718213,124716526,124716520,124716528,124715498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26797"}],"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=26797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26802,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26797\/revisions\/26802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}