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Harlem

• August 18 -- Too Poor To Loot?
Martin Gottlieb ponders the lack of looting in blacked-out Manhattan: “From the streets of poorer neighborhoods, even those like Harlem, which are now home to touchstones of prosperity like Old Navy and Starbucks, other reasons are offered for the peace. Among them are an overwhelming, debilitating poverty that has outlasted a near decade of prosperity, and [former NYC mayor] Giuliani's extraordinarily successful campaign to cut welfare rolls.”