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February 16, 2017

Denver's ‘Harlem of the West' endures amid change

  • Five Points is getting gentrified, with breweries and coffee shops near the buildings that once housed jazz clubs and black-owned businesses.
    • By RUSSELL CONTRERAS
    Associated Press

    DENVER — The neighborhood was once called “The Harlem of the West.” It's a place where Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis performed to packed rooms not far from the snowcapped Rocky Mountains. For years, the area served as a haven for black residents who couldn't find housing elsewhere in the American West.

    But the historic black neighborhood of Denver's Five Points now faces the encroachment of gentrification with new breweries and coffee shops near the buildings that once housed jazz clubs and black-owned businesses.


     
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