Remember that post about how Esquire Magazine designated the penthouse at 111 Central Park North (aka Esquire North’s location) the “ultimate bachelor pad?” Well, it’s been sold and it’s not to a bachelor. A family bought the place last month for $8.5 million. Oh and they also paid $150,000 for two parking spaces. Everyone’s favorite puddling peddler, Bill Cosby, hung out in the new space for a charity event last week.
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Obama will doing five events in NYC this Thursday. Two will be in Harlem. The Apollo Theater event (at $50 a head) is by far the most accessible.
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Community Board 9 expressed concerns about the 125th Rezoning proposal at their meeting last night.
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Anonymous
November 27, 2007
No, of course not. I am saying it’s noteworthy if an apartment (condo) building dwelling takes root in Harlem that does not have a single Black resident. That’s news and a harbinger of things to come.
Why and how that is speaks to many things that can be explored. For example, can you imagine a large apartment building in Bed-Stuy that has no Black residents?
Or look at it like this, is there a large apartment building in Harlem right now, coop, condo, or rental with zero Black residents? I don’t think so.
Talk to the doorman at CP111, 5 or 6 residents have already moved in, it’s a “first”, the first Harlem building with no Blacks. Perhaps in 10 more years there will be streets in Harlem with no Blacks, and whole neighborhoods with no Blacks.
10 years ago if I were to say there will be a large apartment building in Harlem that has no Black residents, no one would have believed that possible. Why does it matter? It speaks to the transitioning of Harlem from a Black cultural center to just another multicultural nabe of Manhattan.
The vanishing of Little Italy is news and has been news over the past decade, as is the vanishing of historical Harlem, Black Harlem.
narmer
November 27, 2007
Are you saying, that this Condo is rejecting African American applications?
Anonymous
November 27, 2007
Bachelorless? How about “Colorless”. I know Black people that have bought into every single new Harlem condo (Dwyer, Loft124, 5th on Mad, etc.) except for this one.
Will this be the first Harlem dwelling with no Blacks? The times they are a changing….