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50 years on, Harlem Week shows how a New York City neighborhood went from crisis to renaissance

Aug. 19, 2024 18:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — In the 1970s, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Disinvestment had taken its toll. Violence, crime and poor living conditions had become the norm and nearly 50,000 residents — a third of the area's...