Yongjia New Village is a later style of lane neighborhood known a garden lilong. The lane’s history goes back to 1945 when the Bank of Communications moved back to Shanghai from Chongqing. The bank purchased the land for employee housing and built eight rows of two-story apartments, with grey-green tiled roofs, semi-open courtyard walls and Spanish-style rain sheds at the entrance. There was a second phase of building in 1947, much blockier. Currently it’s home to nearly 1,000 people, with almost half of them long-term (50+ years) residents.