The Fed’s Bad Credit Report

Is your bank making enough loans to businesses in low-income neighborhoods? The Federal Reserve’s new CRA database probably won’t tell you much more than you already know.

City Lit: Harlem Benighted

A book review of Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, by Gilbert Osofsky, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1997 (orig. 1966), 276 pages, paper $14.95.