One neighborhood, many lives: Pioneered by African laborers brought over by the Dutch in 1626, Harlem (or New Haarlem, as it was orginally known) began as a rural spur of the New York settlement. It became a highly fashionable neighborhood in the late 1800s. Shortly after the turn of the century, when this photo was taken, a real estate market collapse emptied the neighborhood and blacks from the South began settling there. By 1930, two-thirds of the city's African Americans were living in Harlem. Part One of I Remember Harlem explores the neighborhood's origins; see schedule for times.

Photograph courtesy of Brown Brothers for I Remember Harlem