His novels are set in Hell's Kitchen, a gentrifying neighborhood with a bloody, sordid past.

I live in a gentrifying neighborhood.

There are also numerous competitive advantages for guessing right and being the first retailer to enter a gentrifying neighborhood.

Unlike most gentrifying neighborhoods, where old-timers resist newcomers, here the newcomers have joined many longtime residents in calling for calmer streets.

The parents of the child were up-and-comers in a gentrifying neighborhood.

On the north side, a gentrifying neighborhood with stylish cafes and higher rents, many residents heard of the killings long before the police publicized their investigation.

A new play by Diana Son is about an interracial couple moving into a gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Its heart pine floors, tin ceiling and yellow-and-white checked curtains make this onetime barbershop in a gentrifying neighborhood a time trip down home.

"You've got two competing forces in a gentrifying neighborhood," Dr. Braconi said.

Dr. Braconi said that as more retailers arrive in a gentrifying neighborhood, better jobs become available and residents can afford the more expensive housing.