An oversupply of housing stock built in Harlem around 1910 led landlords to begin accepting African American tenants. The sign reads "Apartments to Let. 3 or 4 Rooms with Improvements For Respectable
Colored Families Only."
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In this essay, the introduction to Andrew S. Dolkart and Gretchen S. Sorin's Touring Historic Harlem: Four Walks in Northern Manhattan, Dolkart, James Marston Fitch Chair and associate professor of historic preservation at Columbia, charts the growth of Harlem and its buildings, from its roots as a Dutch farming village called Nieuw Haarlem in 1658, centered at East 125th Street.
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And, in a video presentation recorded for the Web site The Architecture and Development of New York City, Professor Dolkart discusses Harlem churches and synagogues, and the efforts of congregations to erect great buildings upon their arrival in Harlem early in the twentieth century.
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