I do know West Harlem the best way most individuals by no means need to know a neighborhood. From the bottom up. Actually. I used to be homeless beginning at age ten. I spent years sleeping on park benches, within the streets, and in shelters. I raised my son contained in the household shelter system, studying to outlive in a metropolis that too typically treats its most susceptible individuals as issues to be warehoused somewhat than people to be housed. Harlem was at all times the place I discovered myself, and the place I ultimately discovered my footing. In the…
