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The Harlem Neighborhood Block Association
January 28, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes
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No Trees In Harlem (Except on Strivers’ Row)
In 1928, Wallace Thurman described the cross-streets of Harlem in critical terms. Note how only Strivers' Row was said to have shade trees:
Most of the cross streets in Harlem, lying between the main north and south thorough-fares, are monotonous and overcrowded. There is little difference between any of them save that some are more dirty and more squalid than others. They are lined with ordinary, unextinguished tenement and apartment houses. Some are well kept, others are run down.
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There are only four streets that are noticeably different, 136th Street, 137th Street, 138th Street and 139th Street west of Seventh Avenue and these are the only blocks in Harlem that can boast of having shade trees. An improvement association organized by people living in these streets, strives to keep them looking respectable.
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