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Harlem Commuters
Where Harlem Residents Work and
How They Get There
Very few Harlem residents own cars and even fewer use them to get to work. Bus and subway dominate the transit mix, and not surprisingly rides on average are shorter compared with those of commuters from other boroughs, since most Harlem commuters work in Manhattan. Easy subway access to Manhattan employment opportunities comes at a tradeoff: job prospects in Brooklyn and Queens can be hard to reach. In 2008, on the eve of the current jobs slump, Central Harlem's unemployment rate was 8.9 percent.
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