The recession could be doing in another block of Harlem shops, this one in a five-story building at West 127th Street and Seventh Avenue, where the owner, NYC Designs, has apparently failed to make mortgage payments since April.

A half dozen or so merchants, including a Caribbean restaurant, the Harlem Christian Center, a barber, a locksmith and a hair-braiding shop could now be kicked out of the building, according to foreclosure papers filed by Astoria Federal Savings in Manhattan Supreme Court last week.