Cities are gentrifying, yet we know little about the experience of older adults aging in gentrifying areas. Most research has focused on a shortage of affordable housing and threat of eviction for low-income residents but has paid less attention to age. This trend neglects a fuller understanding of place’s heightened significance for older people and how commercial gentrification threatens their possibilities to connect in non-institutional, intergenerational spaces. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork among older adults in a gentrified New York City neighborhood, this paper examines the significance of “third places” for longtime residents. I find that features of establishments such as proximity (distance from study participants’ residences), cost, physical design and layout, and surveillance shaped how different neighborhood places facilitated face-to-face interaction and a sense of ownership that supported participants’ independence as they aged in place. This paper contributes to limited scholarly knowledge about older people’s experiences of gentrification and neighborhood change, an understudied area of growing concern as population aging converges with the increasing desirability and cost of living in urban areas.

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“为了更年轻的人​​群”：面临社区变化的老年人的位置、归属和排斥

城市正在高档化，但我们对老年人在高档化地区老龄化的经历知之甚少。大多数研究都集中在低收入居民的经济适用房短缺和驱逐威胁上，但对年龄的关注较少。这种趋势忽视了对地方对老年人的高度重要性的更全面理解，以及商业高档化如何威胁他们在非制度性、代际空间中联系的可能性。本文借鉴了纽约市一个高档社区中老年人五年的民族志实地调查，研究了“第三地方”对长期居民的重要性。我发现诸如距离（与研究参与者住所的距离）、成本、物理设计和布局等场所的特征，和监视塑造了不同的邻里场所如何促进面对面的互动和一种支持参与者随着年龄的增长而独立的主人翁感。这篇论文有助于对老年人中产阶级化和邻里变化的经验的学术知识有限，随着人口老龄化与城市地区生活需求和成本的不断增加，这一未得到充分研究的领域越来越受到关注。