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Research Essay

What are the commercial impacts of gentrification and how it’s impacting small businesses in Harlem? Al-Aqsa is a restaurant in the Bronx that has been dominating the Bengali communities since the beginning of 2010. At first, it was just a small grocery shop. Now, Al-Aqsa owns about two restaurants and three grocery shops of its […]

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Reflection

I have been in the education system for almost 8 years now and before this year, I have never learned about gentrification and how it is impacting our world. In the beginning of the semester, when I was doing my very first assignment, I thought to myself; why is gentrification so important? why are people […]

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Evidence of Gentrification in Harlem

Harlem began to see rapid gentrification in the late 1990s. Ever since the beginning of gentrification, Harlem has fallen victim to gentrification greatly. This image shows us the picture of a part of Harlem in 1978 and a picture of the same place in 2015. According to this image, we can clearly see the difference […]

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