Liquor Store Frustrates Harlem's Park-Slopification

via The New York Observer

The original "Harlem Renaissance" was a literary and broader cultural movement, led by figures like Langston Hughes, that wrestled with deep political and racial themes. The modern "Harlem Renaissance" is apparently more about becoming Park Slope II.

Hooray for Harlem?

This comes from a story in the Times about the increasingly-gentrified 'hood of Harlem's backlash against a new (yet old school-looking) liquor store. The new place, which has the accoutrement of '70's and '80's Harlem (bullet-proof Plexiglass! Garish signs! Cheap whine! Insufficient pretension!), set up shop at Lenox and 119th, and was cask-blocked by a neighborhood association for failing to be... more like Park Slope.

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