La Marqueta, Once a Thriving Harlem Hub, Struggles to Attract a Crowd
In the one building that’s left of East Harlem’s La Marqueta, there are signs of the renovations the city is funding, but business is crawling.
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Melissa is a junior at the University of Florida, where she is a news editor at the student newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator. She has held internships at The Las Vegas Review-Journal and The Naples Daily News. She is a 2015 winner of The New York Times College Scholarship and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.