But the ensuing scenario is all too familiar: Long-time economically depressed or working class cities such as Brooklyn and Harlem soon become gentrified by outside investors and developers, forcing out decades-long residents and local businesses by the rapidly inflating cost of living.
Today, the area has a gentrified look to it, thanks in no small part to the charming little gardens that have been established by owners who clearly care about how their homes look.
Heidi Burkhart, president of Dane Real Estate, said the sale comes as Newark, whose neighbors Hoboken and Jersey City have been transformed and gentrified by commercial and residential developments, continues to attract the attention of developers and builders alike.
Christian Slater has sold a modest if not exactly cheap condominium in a postwar non-doorman building at the northern reaches of Manhattan's once-gritty and now largely gentrified Clinton/Hell's Kitchen neighborhood for $1.11 million.
Every area I grew up in has been totally, utterly bastardised into a gentrified hell hole Lord (John) Bird, founder of the Big Issue He is rocking, I can easily see him going on Actor Michael Douglas on his veteran film star father Kirk Douglas, who is approaching 100 All I can do is cry, and that's what happens.
This three-part series is set in fictional Pepys Road in south London - once home to modest, lower-middle class families, which over the years has become gentrified, bringing new faces and conflict.
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