A young F. Scott Fitgerald lived at 200 Claremont in Manhattanville back in 1919 when the author was released from the military. America's Jazz Age novelist rented a single room in the above building just below 125th Street while unsuccessfully trying to break into advertisement and probably working out a few final ideas for his first novel which would be released the following year. This was a time when Harlem's demographic had started to shift and the majority white neighborhood would soon see a renaissance happening just a little further east of this location.
Let's not forget the pitch-perfect scene in the Great Gatsby in which the main characters gather uptown for a moral holiday. And if I'm not mistaken, on the way into the city they see a limousine with a white driver and a black owner...
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