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The Victorian-era buildings stayed, though a lot of the regular visitors did not, and it was not until the 1970's in a fit of historic preservation that many of the homes became upscale bed-and-breakfasts or restaurants.

Mr. Barotz said, "I expected the island would eventually become upscale".

A former trolley barn on the waterfront is slated to become upscale live-work lofts.

When neighborhoods become upscale like Chelsea has, diversity goes out the window".

But he spent much of his life in New York, splitting time between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and his simple sanctuary here in what was once a working-class harbor village, but in recent years has become upscale.

Many of the farms that once dotted the landscape have now become upscale developments, but developments all the same.

"One became an upscale gardening center and the other an upscale delicatessen," Mr. Williams said.

It was purchased by Condé Nast in 1993 and became more upscale.

Starting about a decade ago, both the sport and the neighborhoods where it is practiced became increasingly upscale.

But Lethem resists the nostalgic urge to tether his melancholy utopianism too closely to a particular time, or to suggest that the middle collapsed forever once trains were scrubbed clean, hip-hop conquered the music industry and Boerum Hill's tired business corridor became an upscale restaurant row.

Soon market gardens followed and eventually, during the 19th Century, it became an upscale address full of grand homes.