South Harlem Added The Most Housing In Manhattan During 2022: Study

HARLEM, NY — No neighborhood in Manhattan added more new housing in 2022 than South Harlem.

In total, the city added 13,500 residential units last year, while also losing 10,800 — leaving the five boroughs with a net gain of 2,666 apartments, shows The Real Deal's analysis of the city's Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output database.

The Real Deal broke down where these gains and losses happened across the city, and found that South Harlem was the only neighborhood in Manhattan to make the top 10 when it came to units added.

South Harlem added 313 housing units in 2022, a 1.46 percent increase from the amount of housing the neighborhood added the year before, according to the analysis.

Brooklyn accounted for six of the top 10 neighborhoods with the most housing added last year, whereas Murray Hill, Grand Central, Inwood, and the Lower East Side were found lower down within the top 20.

Here's the full top 10 list of units added in 2022, according to The Real Deal.

1. Fort Greene, Brooklyn: 1,061 units added
2. Jamaica, Queens: 1,047 units added
3. Coney Island, Brooklyn: 860 units added
4. Prospect Heights, Brooklyn: 787 units added
5. Elmhurst, Queens: 653 units added
6. Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn: 616 units added
7. Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn: 465 units added
8. Greenpoint, Brooklyn: 451 units added
9. Far Rockaway, Queens: 320 units added
10. South Harlem, Manhattan: 313 units added

It is not the first time that South Harlem has made headlines in recent months.

In October 2022, the New York Times posted an article titled — "South Harlem: 'A Busy, Interesting Place to Live.'"

The article covered the efforts by the real estate industry to rebrand South Harlem as a separate neighborhood from Harlem amid the uptick of construction in the community.

This uptick in construction has also seen a change in the neighborhood's demographics.

South Harlem went from having a 55.9 percent Black non-Hispanic population in 2010, to the same group accounting for 43.1 percent of the community in 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

During the same period, the neighborhood's white non-Hispanic population increased from 16.1 percent to 23.6 percent, according to the 2020 census.

The neighborhood is generally defined as stretching from 110th Street and Central Park North to 125th Street, and then from Morningside Park to Park Avenue.

You can read a further breakdown of some of the changes that have happened in South Harlem on the New York Time's website.