Sentences with phrase «gentrifying section»

Bedford - Stuyvesant is now 60 percent black, down from 75 percent a decade ago, as white residents move into the gentrifying section of Brooklyn, a change the Times calls even more striking than in Harlem.

He, like Mr. Seddio, argued that Mr. Lopez should be remembered as a man who oversaw the extensive construction of low - cost apartments in a traditionally poor but now gentrifying section of the borough.