Harlem

On the Verge

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by Alice Attie,

Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley

The Quantuck Lane Press

Due/Published September 2003, 128 pages, cloth

ISBN 0971454876

These color portraits document both the people and the buildings of Harlem on the eve of great change. Gentrification and the influx of large chain stores are replacing small businesses, store fronts, memorials on walls, and other visual evidence of the complex range of cultural identities that residents had woven into the streets of their neighborhoods. With a sense of both dedication and desperation (to beat the developer's clock) Alice Attie has produced a beautiful record of a world rapidly being lost. 90 color photographs.