NY Daily News ARTICLE: A Harlem street shows why and how affordable housing workS
By Jason Sheftell, Published in the NY Daily News on November 5, 2010
In 1998, 148th St. between Adam Clayton Powell and Frederick Douglas Blvds. was one of the worst blocks in Harlem. Every building was abandoned, each window boarded up. A magnificent public school built in 1905 and closed since the 1970s had trees growing out of its side. The street had more rats than people.