Most buyers are professionals, many are second-generation residents and others are "Wall Street types".
Many buyers, Ms. Graves said, are second-generation residents who buy their parents' or a neighbor's house and are willing to spend money to make improvements.
There have been tensions in the area between second-generation residents of Caribbean origin and more recent immigrants from West Africa.
The standard for church membership came into question when it was found that numbers of second-generation residents could not testify to the experience of grace in their lives.
I have been unable to find any statistics on how many of these migrants' children and grandchildren have become middle-class, but it is probably not too inaccurate to estimate that about 30,000,000 people live in urban slums, and that about half are second-generation residents".
The town's white population includes many second- and even third-generation residents.
This exhibition recognizes that many Taiwanese -- recent immigrants and second- and third-generation residents -- live in the museum's own neighborhood.
Joseph Conley, the chairman of Community Board 2, whose district includes Queens West, said he was concerned what the burgeoning neighborhood might do to the true pioneers of the area — the third-generation residents who grew up in a neighborhood of single-family homes that stood alongside factories.
And today its grass-roots preservation movement is driven not by Disney-inspired developers but by a vibrant coalition of part-time preservationists, amateur historians and third-generation residents who have made reclaiming the city's history a deeply personal mission.
Along with artists, writers, young professionals, and third-generation residents who were already there, they sought a place to gather and urged the city to renovate the abandoned gas station property.
Maxine Brimmer, another local broker, is a third-generation resident.
