This article is on point. One only needs to go to NYC's Upper East Side to see this in action. Right above the UES (Yorkville, specifically) is Spanish Harlem.

This article is on point. One only needs to go to NYC's Upper East Side to see this in action. Right above the UES (Yorkville, specifically) is Spanish Harlem. Before 96th Street? Multi-million dollar penthouses and rentals abound that will impress your friends and family guaranteed. "Gourmet organic" bodegas. Expensive-looking restaurants. Upper-middle-class creature comforts all around. After 96th Street? Projects. Junk-food bodegas. Domestic abuse shelters. Police cameras. Unmistakeable poverty oozing through the sewers. It's frustrating to watch. (This contrast is even more stark in much of America. My girlfriend and I went to Memphis during a road trip last year. She went to college there and wanted to show me how quickly Memphis goes from "filthy rich asshole" to "filthy shithole". There was an approximate 2 block radius of really expensive-looking homes and tree-lined streets that bordered the college. Outside of it? Endless projects.)