{"id":409202,"date":"2017-10-11T10:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=409202"},"modified":"2017-10-11T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:44:53","slug":"map-harlems-black-churches-cash-in-on-gentrification-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=409202","title":{"rendered":"MAP: Harlem&#8217;s Black Churches Cash in on Gentrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171009\/central-harlem\/gentrification-harlem-churches-selling-out-or-surviving\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171009\/central-harlem\/gentrification-harlem-churches-selling-out-or-surviving\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171009\/central-harlem\/gentrification-harlem-churches-selling-out-or-surviving\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171009\/central-harlem\/gentrification-harlem-churches-selling-out-or-surviving#slideshow\" class=\"js-slideshow\" title=\"Harlem&#039;s dwindling churches\"><\/a> <img class=\"vital\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/assets.dnainfo.comextralarge-c60e428fe307a0e856a9775cd1a5792abcf4b2f6-1.jpg\" alt=\" Over the last 10 years nearly two dozen Harlem churches have closed or been sold to developers, research shows. \" \/> Harlem&#8217;s dwindling churches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171009\/central-harlem\/gentrification-harlem-churches-selling-out-or-surviving#\" class=\"view-more pull-left dropup hide\" title=\" Over the last 10 years nearly two dozen Harlem churches have closed or been sold to developers, research shows. \">View Full Caption<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>HARLEM &mdash; Churches are losing members but gaining&nbsp;profits&nbsp;from gentrification.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two dozen churches have either closed&nbsp;or been sold to developers for more than $50 million over the last decade, according to a review by DNAinfo New York and Harlem historian Michael Henry Adams.<\/p>\n<p>The churches often sell because of a combination of factors including dwindling memberships, high maintenance costs and the lure of millions of dollars from developers ready to buy in Harlem.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the $53.1 million&nbsp;came from a single church &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Legree-Baptist-Church\/122092057848266\">LaGree&nbsp;Baptist Church<\/a> which sold for <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/2016\/08\/17\/brooklyn-landlord-buys-harlem-church-for-29m\/\">$28.5<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409203,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124717284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409202"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409206,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409202\/revisions\/409206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}