It is a large 16-block area in west central Harlem.

Turner was about to launch into his speech in central Harlem when a vision brought him up short.

The highest rate was in central Harlem, with 233.4 cases per 100,000 people, more than 24 times the national average.

"District 5 in central Harlem has had a very long history of significant underperformance," she said.

But after central Harlem changed over to black tenancy beginning in the 1920's, so, too, did this area.

But the gang is said to have carried out most of its activities in central and west Harlem.

In central Harlem the figure is about 50 percent.

The two discovered they lived just three blocks apart in central Harlem.

About 3,000 units in central Harlem are scheduled for development.

From 1970 to 1990, central Harlem's population dropped by more than a third.