Summary Of The Growth And Decline Of Harlem's Housing By Tritter

In the articele “ The Growth and Decline of Harlem’s Housing” by Tritter explores various aspects of Harlem Gentrification. Author begins by giving the exposition of housing boom and Black migration in Harlem. He assert that in the 1880’s Harlem began to experience influx growth in the housing market due to the extension of second and third avenue railroads to Northern regions of Manhattan. Tritter further explains that the Real estate developers took the chance to make residential housing in uptown to draw out resident from crowded areas. Speculative buying along with growing support for housing regulation, which would increase the cost of building, amplified the housing boom Harlem and others neighborhood of upper east side. As the neighborhood

In 1902 New York Tenant House Department reported that 1127 black families lived in the uptown areas. He also give credits to Philip Payton, a black entrepreneur who rented an apartment building to African Americans for the increase in African American population in Harlem. Between 1910 and 1920 African American population increased by sixty percent in New York City. The White Landlords began to sell their properties to black before the prices began dropping. Tritter address that Blacks are not alone to be blamed for driving out white from Harlem partly because by the 1920s mass transportation created new residential areas like Flushing, Boro Park, and Riverdale. (Tritter,115). As an effect, from 1920s and 1930s 118792 white people left Harlem while 87,417 negroes arrived. The quality of life in Harlem were not appealing to the second generation of the white residents. New immigrants such as Puerto Ricans moved to Harlem as the white resident left vacant apartments, thus making Harlem a melting pot of culture. As the population increased rapidly the city passed tax exemption to “spur new construction” in the Upper Manhattan