To the residents at 1030 Carroll Street in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, a new bank of Citi Bikes the bike sharing program typically found in wealthier neighborhoods isnt a sign that city officials are investing in their health and wellness. Instead, its a signal to longtime residents that their area has entered late-stage gentrification.

As people move out, new people move in and their rents are going sky high, said Clentine Fenner, 68, who has lived at 1030 Carroll Street since 1976.

Fenner, a retired educator and childcare advocate, has spent the bulk of her adult life in her first floor apartment.

Over the past century, Crown Heights has been a neighborhood that includes communities of Hasidic Jews, African-Americans who migrated from the South and Caribbean immigrants. In the early 2000s, affluent white residents started moving in from Manhattan, attracted by historic brownstones, easy access to the boroughs cultural institutions and subway, and close proximity to the 526-acre Prospect Park.

Fenner appreciates some of the perks that investment in Crown Heights has accrued, like new cafes and restaurants, and trees that the city planted on her block. Shes less enthusiastic about her buildings ongoing construction, noise from which wakes her up early and coats her buildings hallways and stairwells in a fine layer of dust.

When workers were demolishing the unit adjacent to hers to upgrade it with luxury fixtures, Fenner woke up coughing and said she couldnt get the dusty grit out of her eyes.

It really had gotten bad, she said. But I still refuse to move.