This article is on point.<p>One only needs to go to NYC&#x27;s Upper East Side to see this in action. Right above the UES (Yorkville, specifically) is Spanish Harlem.<p>Before 96th Street? Multi-million dollar penthouses and rentals abound that will impress your friends and family guaranteed. &quot;Gourmet organic&quot; bodegas. Expensive-looking restaurants. Upper-middle-class creature comforts all around.<p>After 96th Street? Projects. Junk-food bodegas. Domestic abuse shelters. Police cameras. Unmistakeable poverty oozing through the sewers. It&#x27;s frustrating to watch.<p>(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 &quot;filthy rich asshole&quot; to &quot;filthy shithole&quot;.<p>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.)