New York The reverend picks the spot: 113 West 116th Street, three o'clock sharp. You know the neighborhood directly north of Central Park as part of Harlem. He calls it the Upper West Side. Amy Ruth's, a soul-food joint, is the place. A little early, I make my way there from Malcolm X Boulevard, strolling past the towering, rusted steel cross at Canaan Baptist Church. Hair salons and laundry shops dot the block. In almost all of their busy windows, taped or tacked, are pictures of President Obama.