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...going to say that this is a perfect plan," acknowledges Inez Dickens, one of three city-council members representing Harlem. Dickens haggled with city officials to add considerable benefits to the proposal: affordable home-ownership opportunities, a $750,000 forgivable-loan program for businesses that may be forced to relocate, funding for arts and health programs and a $5.8 million enhancement of a local park. None of this mollifies Shange, who says his and other local stores still face closure. "My business has been here through the worst of times," he says. "And now that there will be better times...
...outside the Record Shack, which he has run for 36 years on Harlem's 125th Street. Websites offering pirated MP3s cut into his profits. And his landlord has been trying to evict him for more than a year. But Shange, 66, reserves his deepest anger for a new city plan that he believes will strip Harlem of its soul. "Working people are getting packaged to get dumped in the sewer," he says. "If the change takes place, it will be a total disaster for the community...
...April 30, New York's city council approved the rezoning of 125th Street, Harlem's main artery, to promote commercial and residential development. But the plan has drawn stiff resistance from community groups concerned that the historic district's unique character--and its prominence as a nexus of African-American intellectual and cultural life--is under threat...
...History professor Charles S. Maier ’60, a former Crimson editorial chair, likened the Final Report of the Task Force on General Education to a generic floor-plan...
...Builders will work with blueprints, and if you see the blueprints and see the specs, you know what the building will look like,” he said. “But if you see a floor-plan, you don’t know anything about the vertical walls. You only see the footprints. These are not blueprints, the Gen Ed criteria...