Harlem Renaissance
Harlem the historic New York City neighborhood in northern Manhattan is experiencing its second Renaissance in a century. It began in the 1990s driven in part by people in search of affordable homes who flocked to the many large and beautiful brownstones along parks and on tree-lined streets there that had sadly fallen into disrepair. Unlike so many examples of gentrification though this one has not driven away the indigenous black and Latino culture that was born in the first Harlem Renaissance that took place from the 1920s through the 1930s.