The Wall Street Journal talked to Settepani owner Leah Abraham about the middle class African-American businesses in Harlem and the restaurant's re-opening date was revealed as March 19th. Also check out the article on the topic of what gentrification means for Harlem. The usual scenario focuses on non-minority businesses replacing local stores but many of today's new Harlem shops are African-American or minority owned establishments. Read more about the ongoing debate on the WSJ site: LINK. Photo by Ulysses
Friday, March 5, 2010
☞ EAT: Settepani Opening Date Confirmed
The Wall Street Journal talked to Settepani owner Leah Abraham about the middle class African-American businesses in Harlem and the restaurant's re-opening date was revealed as March 19th. Also check out the article on the topic of what gentrification means for Harlem. The usual scenario focuses on non-minority businesses replacing local stores but many of today's new Harlem shops are African-American or minority owned establishments. Read more about the ongoing debate on the WSJ site: LINK. Photo by Ulysses
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Thank you. Wonderful article - and very happy to know that Settapani will be back real soon.
ReplyDelete"Middle Class AA businesses in Harlem"? The average household income in Harelm is $36,000/year. Neither Settipani or Harlem Vintage or N Boutique are middle class businesses in Harlem. They are for Upper Middle Class African Americans in Harlem and or households that exceed what is Harlem's AA middle class. I'm always amused when I see people reframing or redefining labels, and titles to suit the purposes of their argument or point. Reminds me of use of the term "Affordable Housing". Affordable to who? People that earn at least $75K/year? That's a very very very tiny fraction of AA Harlem.
ReplyDeleteTo comment #2 - You are the one guilty of "reframing" and "redefining" labels, not those quoted in the article. The article talks about "middle-class" in a broader, generally accepted definition of the term in society at-large, not your narrowly prescribed definition of "middle-class" based on the median income of Harlem. The median income of Harlem has nothing to do with the commonly-accepted definition of "middle-class"
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