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The (short) Scoop
Posted on June 14, 2007 by D. Bell
Anonymous
June 14, 2007
“First of all, it’s too damn big,” an architectural historian and the author of “Harlem Lost and Found,” Michael Henry Adams, said. “Harlem has always been six- and eight-story buildings. We are trading openness and a sense of space for something that looks just like the rest of Manhattan.”
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Though I would love to afford a place at 111CPN, I gotta agree with Adams. 111CPN from day one has been on racist & insulting development. From the renderings that once stood in front erasing Black people, to the map on their website which placed Central Park at the center and their very own development at the edge – thereby effectively not having on the map anything above 110th St. Then, more insult? The 111CPN Map of the neighborhood amenities featured restaurants and amenities as far away as the 80′s on the UWS while neglecting to note restaurants and amenities much much closer that happened to be norther of 110th St. and into Harlem. For example Melba’s on 114th and 8th would not cut it, but some obscure place on the 80′s on the UWS would.
They did everything possible to diminish, erase, and not acknowledge “Harlem” case closed. Gee, I wonder why? Go look at the building, it even stands as if it’s turning its back on Harlem with its design of no terraces facing the side of the building looking at Harlem.
However having said all this, if I could afford to live there, I would!