Cheap marginal housing in Harlem sustained the Anthology’s creator

Evidence

Surviving mainly on handouts, Smith lived in a basement in Spanish Harlem. Later he moved to a tiny upstairs apartment at 300 ½ East Seventy-Fifth Street, between Third and Lexington Avenues (around the corner from the high school that saw the shooting that sparked the 1964 Harlem uprising). — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 677

Categorization

• XREF: Exactly the reader’s core thesis: creators of foundational culture survived in micro-apartments and handouts in then-cheap neighborhoods. The 1964 Harlem uprising geography nods to the racial displacement running beneath gentrification histories.