It is now an affluent gentrified neighborhood. However, the area became gentrified by 'yuppies' in subsequent decades. In addition, Brownsville is unlike similar neighborhoods in New York City that had since gentrified. Cabbagetown was gentrified by affluent professionals, beginning in the 1970s. Today this neighborhood has been largely gentrified. Melbourne's lanes, particularly the pedestrianised ones, have gentrified. Now much of the neighborhood has been gentrified. He returns to his old Brooklyn neighborhood to find that it has become gentrified. As the neighbourhood has gentrified, it has gained citywide, and even international, visibility and support. For some years, the neighborhood has been gentrified with large investments and developments. Additionally, recent years have seen more crime in the increasingly gentrified downtown area. In recent decades these inner-city areas and their terraced houses have been gentrified. Manhattan Valley has gentrified significantly since the 1980s. Although this area had gentrified rapidly, some residents opposed the new developments. New Orleans is sort of a depressed city; it hasn't been gentrified.