I am from Italian Harlem.covered 104 street to 120 street 1and pleasant ave to third ave. the government thought they could destroy the heroin trade there so they threw down all the tenements and build the projects. They did not let the Italians into those projects. So most Italians moved into the Bronx. Then the Spanish moved into the projects and that became Spanish Harlem.

But there are still some Italians still there today. Around the corner from where I lived when they threw down that tenement they found the remains of 70 bodies when they dug up the basement.

Now the Spanish are being pushed out of Spanish Harlem and are being replaced by yuppies. So it is becoming yuppie Harlem now