Opened in 2009, the East River Plaza located in the heart of East Harlem, has created over 3,000 jobs to a community that has the worse jobless rate in New York City. Now that the mall has been up-and-running for a couple of years, there have been talks that there will be apartment towers built on top of the mall. This part of the neighborhood has been heavily gentrified over the years. Hunter college, student housing, and a number of condo's and luxury apartments flood the area that was abandoned and vacant while I was growing up in the mid and late 90s. So yes, this mall has generated jobs for the people in the community but the towers on top of the mall probably will be out of the price range for East Harlem natives.
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