☞ READ: Apartment Hunting in Harlem

The New York Times' weekend feature The Hunt has been talking Harlem in the last couple of weeks but we found one fact a little off in the most recent article.  It all starts out with a young hospital administration professional from Albany who is seeking a job at the Mount Sinai Medical Center on the Upper East Side (but technically East Harlem) and had a very short time to get a $1,200 a month rental in Manhattan when hired early this year.

East Harlem is the obvious choice for a quick commute but the up-and-coming nature of the neighborhood had the apartment seeker giving up on Harlem.  A friend then suggested to go further west where "he found an area replete with cafes, restaurants, grocery stores and laundromats." An apartment at West 113th Street was eventually picked but the article mentions that the new neighborhood was in a western part of Harlem.  We figured from the above photo that this was not Morningside Heights and discovered that the location was in the southern section of Central Harlem aka South Harlem.  Read more in the New York Times: LINK.  Still confused about West, Central and East Harlem?  Check out our neighborhood maps of the three community board districts that make up Harlem: LINK