Apartheid. USA 1988

December 19, 1986:

Harlem, once envisioned as an enclave for the white middle class, is these days a true black ghetto. Real estate speculators moved in. For instance, 215 West 116th Street, once luxurious, is nowadays a forlorn apartment building with 38 units and has changed hands five times over the past six years, its price rising from 6 000 dollars to more than 600 000 dollars. Throughout this period, few major repairs have been made. Residents point to rats, leaky ceilings, corroded pipes and broken drains. One resident after another showed the holes and gashes that rats use. ‘The way they walk around the house,’ said Tonya Byrd, a 20-year-old, who lives with her great-aunt, Mrs King, ‘you'd think they pay the rent.’^5.

5. The New York Times, from a report by Samuel G Freedman