However, parts of the neighborhood are still understood as gang territory, standing in ironic contrast the neighborhood's affluent newcomers.
Some of the fashionable boutiques and restaurants that followed the affluent newcomers have come and gone.
In some cases, the arrival of affluent newcomers has pushed rents beyond the reach of the Indians and Hispanic people who have lived there for generations.
In Taos County, for example, affluent newcomers have sought to close a molybdenum mine, fearing that it damages the environment.
Critics often single out Hoboken as an example of an Abbott district that should no longer be one, since rapid development has drawn affluent newcomers.
On one side of the wall, affluent newcomers occupy a stylish private housing development.
After the store and post office closed in 2006, affluent newcomers "gentrifying" the area turned the store into a programmed event center.
To old-timers and less affluent newcomers already on a tight budget, every increase in property taxes is a big deal.
These popular spots are quietly fading away as an influx of affluent newcomers assert themselves as country landowners.
This gentrification has been the cause of rising racial tension between the original Black and Latino residents and the more affluent newcomers.