Friday, May 4, 2012
☞ READ: New Harlem Children's Zone in the News
The Daily News has an update on the New Harlem Children's Zone building rising on 129th Street between ACP/7th and FDB/8th Avenue at the St. Nicholas Houses: LINK. Some residents are not in favor of having the charter school that has a 90 percent success rate for students going to college built on the public housing ground and have even said they were planning to move because of it. Others are more skeptically hopeful and view the $100 million school as a way to curb some of the internal crime within the housing complex. The above video has a view of the school that is about 55 percent complete and could possible open its door by September 2013
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This video is truly amazing.Production is awesome, of course. I think it is one of the missing elements which bridges the gap between all the gentrification, the booming nightlife, cultural renaissance VS the still-lingering effects of the Harlem's recent past with alarming rates of violence, drugs, and high school drop outs that are still active and visible in Harlem.HCZ is in effect redefining the narrative from what we know as the notorious 'projects' by going to the epicenter. I think this is a revolutionary concept.
ReplyDeleteI am not the biggest fan of Geoffrey Canada, but even I don't think having a school in the neighborhood is going to make that area any worse than it is ALREADY.
ReplyDeleteAt worst, the incresed Police presence(Canada's backers are loaded) should help with local crime.
Talk about never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
I think Canada has a point when he says that the housing projects have failed -- in fact, they are often the nexus of crime and neighborhood blight. I'm delighted that anyone is investing so much in Harlem schools, and for anyone in the community to balk is, to me, inconceivable...
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