Gentrification in New York City

Gentrification in New York City is the influx of more affluent residents and investments into lower-and middle class and/or under-developed neighborhoods, resulting in rising rents and low-income residents moving out. It is approximately the opposite of urban blight.

As a result of gentrification, some middle- and low-income residents of New York City, the largest city in the United States, have been alienated and forced to adjust to a complicated and changing urban environment, either directly or indirectly.