Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, Gilbert Osofsky, c. 1963

Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, Gilbert Osofsky, c. 1963 (first of many)  

 

Streets and avenues: 

• 110th Street, borders north side of Central Park
• 155th Street, northernmost boundary of Harlem
• Avenues: low to high numbers, east to west
• Seventh Avenue: "main street of Harlem"

(not all avenues are named / shown)
Hudson River
Park Avenue, ends at 135th / 136th streets
Madison Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Lenox Avenue
Seventh Avenue
Eighth Avenue
St Nicholas -- Edgecombe -- Bradhurst

Farther south

Hudson River
FDR Drive
East End Avenue
York Avenue
1st Avenue
2nd Avenue
3rd Avenue
Lexington Ave
Park Ave
Madison
5th Avenue
Malcolm X Blvd -- north of Central Park
Adam Clayton Powell Jr -- north of Central Park
Frederick Douglass Blvd -- borders west side of Central Park
Manhattan -- St Nicholas -- Edgecombe - Bradhurst
Columbus Avenue
Amsterdam Avenue
Broadway
West End Ave
Riverside Drive
Henry Hudson Parkway -- State Highway 9A
Hudson River

 

Part I: The Negro and the City

Background
lots of statistics
to some degree, somewhat boring

 

Part II: The Making of a Ghetto

now it starts to get good
we learn about Harlem as the first suburb of Manhattan

Part III: Harlem Slum
have not yet started this section
it's going to be interesting to see how the "good" Harlem went "bad"