A few bars, coffee shops and Government buildings are situated in the district, bounded by a riverside state park and the historic working-class enclave of Vinegar Hill.

It could have been a pitched battle: a snug, Bohemian neighborhood versus a big construction project in a historic enclave.

It is a phenomenon playing out in various ways in other historic black enclaves around the country, like Harlem and parts of Washington and Chicago.

In the meantime, he gives Segway tours of the Dockyards area, a historic enclave at the west end of the island.

An old stagecoach stop, Amster Yard is one of New York City's historic private enclaves.

Old Long Ridge Village, a historic enclave at the north end, contains 18th- and 19th-century homes once-owned by Benny Goodman, Joshua Logan and Vivian Vance.

Mr. Webb, along with the other brokers, say that Harlem's racial mix in these historic enclaves is changing gradually.

But after the association began renovating nine of the brownstones, it became clear that for the historic enclave to be viable, the whole neighborhood had to rise along with it.

The provincial division restored the traditional names of the Basque provinces and Navarre, but few concessions were made to historic enclaves and exclaves.

Morningside is just north of and adjacent to Bay Point Estates, another more affluent but less historic residential enclave in urban Miami.