Formerly a low-rent, semi-industrial arts district, in recent decades it has transformed into a neighborhood of trendy restaurants, boutiques, nightclubs, and residential towers as well as warehouses and art galleries.

Formerly Warsaw-Okecie Airport () or Okecie International Airport, the airport bore the name of its Okęcie neighborhood throughout its history, until its renaming for Polish composer and former Warsaw resident Frédéric Chopin in 2001.

Formerly known as Richmond Hill ( and not to be confused with the neighborhood of the same name in the borough of Queens ), Lighthouse Hill acquired its present name when the Staten Island Range Light, towering 141 feet ( 43 m ) above the Lower New York Bay, was built there in 1912.

Formerly known as Summerville, the neighborhood takes its name from a house known as Strawberry Mansion, at one time housing a restaurant known for strawberries and cream.

Formerly part of the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, it remains part of the ceremonial county of East Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex.

Formerly positioned within the now defunct order Urticales, recent genetic studies have resulted in its placement within Rosales in a clade called the urticalean rosids that also includes Ulmaceae, Celtidaceae, Cannabaceae and Urticaceae.

Formerly classified as a separate biological suborder, Pinnipedia is now considered a subgroup within the suborder Caniformia of the order Carnivora.

Formerly within the administrative county of Surrey, as part of the Urban District of Coulsdon and Purley, boundary changes, London Government Act 1963, meant that in 1965 it became part of the Greater London Borough of Croydon.

Formerly a largely rural and agrarian community, the town now lies well within the " travel to work " radius of Morpeth and Newcastle Upon Tyne and has a sizeable commuter population.

Formerly a census-designated place ( CDP ) prior to the annexation of the territory inside its urban growth boundary, the northeast portion of the Smokey Point community now lies within the City of Arlington, whereas the western and southern portions lie within the City of Marysville.

Formerly within the parish of Birstall the village is located on a prominent ridge between Pudsey Beck and Cockers Dale, its place-name probably derived from its location between the two valleys, from the Old English term tang, meaning tong or fork, such as a river fork.

Formerly within the wapentake of Morley and Calverley Parish, Pudsey became a Municipal Borough in 1889.

Formerly known as Speke Airport, RAF Speke, and Liverpool Airport the airport is located within the City of Liverpool adjacent to the estuary of the River Mersey some southeast of the centre of Liverpool, the airport is named after Liverpudlian musician John Lennon, lead singer / songwriter of The Beatles.

Formerly, Leadbeater's possums were moderately common within the very small areas they inhabited: their requirement for year-round food supplies and tree-holes to take refuge in during the day restricts them to mixed-age wet sclerophyll forest with a dense mid-story of Acacia.

Formerly, the local school board ran each college separately ; Rolvaag designed a coordinated statewide system and announced a goal of putting each Minnesotan within commuting distance of an institution of higher education.

Formerly the Monogenea were included in Trematoda on the basis that these worms are also vermiform parasites, but modern phylogenetic studies have raised this group to the status of a sister class within the Platyhelminthes, along with the Cestoda.

Formerly a minister within both the Blair and Brown Governments, she first entered the Shadow Cabinet in May 2010 as the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.

Formerly in the islands of Maldives, there was a festival called Maulūdu, where religious songs were sung by groups of males within a pavilion ( haruge ) specially built for the occasion.

Formerly a North Carolina State Senator and Speaker of the House of the North Carolina General Assembly, Holt was instrumental in the founding of North Carolina State University, as well as in establishing several railroads within the state and the state's department of agriculture.

Formerly part of Stirlingshire, the town is presently within North Lanarkshire jurisdiction.

Formerly standing within the grounds of Midhurst Castle, the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Denys was mentioned in 1291 and later in 1367 as standing, " in a place called Courtgene ".

Formerly, from 1976 to 1991, this grade was divided into ranks with separate titles: sergeant ( referred to unofficially but almost universally within the USAF as " buck sergeant " or simply " buck "), a non-commissioned officer ; and senior airman, which is the equivalent of specialist, a non-supervisory rank.

Formerly a small railroad stop, it now lies within the boundaries of Columbia.

Formerly known as Xanadu, the project resides within the MetLife Sports Complex adjacent to the Izod Center.

Formerly a member of the Dominican Order within the Roman Catholic Church, he is now a member of the Episcopal Church.

Formerly known as the State Rail Fire Service, the unit is based in Sydney and respond to emergency incidents involving the rail network including automatic fire alarms within the underground and nearby stations.

Formerly it shared tectonic evolution with the nearby Vosges Mountains.

Formerly, Saransk was also served by two daily Penza – Nizhny Novgorod passenger trains, carrying passengers from nearby villages mainly to either Ruzayevka junction station and Penza or to Arzamas and Nizhny Novgorod.

Formerly named Taos Peak, after the nearby town of Taos, New Mexico, it was renamed Wheeler Peak in 1950.

Formerly the superintendent of schools in Batavia, Illinois, Marshall left her position in 1985 to found IMSA in nearby Aurora, Illinois.

Formerly Bickenhall had its own traditional-style village church, similar to those in nearby West Hatch and Hatch Beauchamp.

Formerly a municipal borough in the Faversham parliamentary division of Kent, is two miles south of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, nearby the westward entrance to the Swale, where it joins the River Medway.

Formerly an unincorporated community in the geographic township of Dill, Wanup was annexed into Greater Sudbury on January 1, 2001 when that city was created by amalgamating the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury.

Formerly, there was Cullowhee High School, but it closed in 1988.

* Taipei 101 became the tallest building in the world ever built after it officially opened on December 31, 2004, a record it held until the opening of the Burj Khalifa ( Formerly known as Burj Dubai ) in January 2010, standing at 828 m ( 2, 717 ft ).

Formerly a boys ' house, it was the first house to undergo a sex change in the early 1990s when the school became fully co-educational.

Formerly self-styled as the " World's Greatest Newspaper " ( for which WGN radio and television are named ), it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is currently the eighth largest newspaper in the United States by circulation ( and became the second largest under Tribune's ownership after the Chicago Tribune's parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times ).

Formerly part of the province of West Java, Banten became a separate province in 2000.

Formerly the location of an Augustine monastery which became the Augustiner Museum in 1921, it is now a popular social space for Freiburg's younger residents.

Dutch Hollow — Formerly a wooded valley at the base of Nye Hill, it became one of the earliest settled parts of Wisner, and many of its oldest houses can be found here.

Formerly vacant stores were tenanted, and additional retail spaces built as the area became known for its high quality Indian food, sweets, clothing ( particularly saris ), jewelry, music, and other goods.

Formerly the president of the village council, West became mayor upon the death of Bob Armstrong, the previous mayor.

Formerly the seat of the Home of Paxton family, who became Foreman-Home, Milne-Home, and finally Home-Robertson as the direct male lines failed and the inheritance progressed through a female.

Formerly part of the South Erpingham Hundred, Aylsham was, for administrative purposes, absorbed into St. Faiths and Aylsham Rural District Council in 1894 and became part of Broadland District Council in 1974.

Formerly an unusual breed of wild white cattle with red ears grazed in the park but they became extinct in 1884.

Formerly known as Bank House, the Peckover Bank later became part of Barclays Bank.

Formerly owned by criminal Aldrin Klordane, Fat Cat became an independent agent and animal world crime boss after Klordane's incarceration.

Formerly a women's college, it became a coeducational university in 2002.

Formerly a township in Bidston Parish of the Wirral Hundred, Birkenhead was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1877, and became a county borough with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888.

Formerly, critics described any game where the primary design element was shooting as a " shoot ' em up ", but later shoot ' em ups became a specific, inward-looking genre based on design conventions established in those shooting games of the 1980s.

Formerly a Likud stronghold, in the 2006 Knesset elections United Torah Judaism became the city's strongest party, with 22. 2 percent of the votes and Shas getting 19. 9 percent.

Formerly part of JNR, the freight operation was not divided and became a single separate company when JNR was privatized and split.

Formerly William Bickford, William Pennington-Bickford ( died 1941 ) was Rector from 1910 to 1941 and he and his wife Louisa became known for their devotion to the welfare of the parish.

Formerly rural, its main industry became coal mining from the 1920s onwards.

Formerly placed in Spermophilus, as Spermophilus beecheyi, it was reclassified in Otospermophilus in 2009 as it became clear that Spermophilus as previously defined was not a natural ( monophyletic ) group.

Formerly, this same British common law applied to the UK and Australia, and until 1791 to the colonies in North America that became the United States.