☞ DWELL: Harlem's Top Ten Neighborhoods

Harlem is a large part of Manhattan that changes block by block so we have put together a list of the best micro-nabes in Harlem based on location, architecture, transportation and local amenities.  This is our own opinion based on reporting on the neighborhood for a few years and a new post will be made each day until the number one spot has been revealed.

No.10:  The Lower ACP Corridor, South Harlem between 110th and 123rd Street. Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard is probably the most neglected avenue in Harlem but that has kept the architecture quite intact and many of the co-ops in the nabe are affordable.  The south end is by Central Park and the FDB commercial corridor just a block over.  Some better businesses like Cantina have started to open in the past year but there is generally not much to do in the immediate area.  The express trains on 125th Street or 116th Street at Lenox is an easy walk further north which gets one down to midtown in about ten minutes.  ACP/7th Avenue can be pretty quiet almost at all times but loiterers tend to hang out by some of the shabbier shops along the strip.  With that said, it might be a little too quiet and under developed for some but we have seen a few reasonably priced apartment along this corridor.