Brooklyn's 2010 Census Count
The city is calling into question the 2010 Census numbers released yesterday, saying the population count, at a record high of 8,175,133, falls short of its projections. (The Observer reports the Census Bureau is standing behind its data). Meanwhile, here are some of the stats released about Brooklyn: -The Local’s chart on Brooklyn’s stats show…
The city is calling into question the 2010 Census numbers released yesterday, saying the population count, at a record high of 8,175,133, falls short of its projections. (The Observer reports the Census Bureau is standing behind its data). Meanwhile, here are some of the stats released about Brooklyn:
-The Local’s chart on Brooklyn’s stats show an increase of 39,374 people in Brooklyn between the 2000 and 2010 tallies, for a total of 2,504,700.
-According to The Times, “Manhattan and Brooklyn accounted for the only counties in the country with a million or more people where the white share of the population rose.”
-Also from The Times: “According to the census, Queens registered a net loss in occupied housing since 2000 and a 59 percent increase in vacancies. Brooklyn recorded a 66 percent rise in vacancies. In the eyes of the census, [Joseph J. Salvo, the director of the population division at the city’s Planning Department] said, ‘huge swaths of housing have essentially been depopulated.’ He added that in many cases, the neighborhoods where the census found high vacancy rates were not necessarily where new housing had been built, or where foreclosures had been rampant.”
-The screengrab above is from WNYC’s interactive map, which lets you zoom in on tracts to see the population increases and decreases that were reported.
Census: New York City’s Population Barely Rose in the Last Decade [NY Times]
Mapping Changes in the Five Boroughs [WNYC]
A Population Grows in Brooklyn [The Local]
Census Bureau Stands By Numbers [NY Observer]
DitmasSnark, re the crumbling subway system. It seems to be very uneven — service, trains, stations on different lines. I take the C to the 4/5 at Fulton to midtown. But on the way home, sometimes I just can’t face the wait for the C at Fulton Street. That station is like a preview of Hell with rivers of filth between the rails, rats, dripping ceilings, peeling paint, half done tiling, interminable construction. Then on top of it all – STEEL DRUMS. It is the favorite for LOUD subway musicians. Sometimes on the way home, I just stay on the 4/5 and hoof it home from Atlantic Avenue.
Something is happening at Fulton Street. Maybe someday I will go down there and they will finish it and it will look like Jay Street.
Minard — The building of the original transit system was a private endeavor. I bet the same could happen again!
(Just make sure there’s oversight and required “transferability” so you don’t end up with legacies like we have now — e.g., not being able to transfer to the F-train without going 10 stops out of the way or exiting the system.)
> Expanded and/or new train lines.
> Light rail, more express buses, more buses, period
can you say MONORAIL!!??
more buses and better transit systems is unlikely given the deficits the current system runs and the reluctance of the federal and State government’s to provide transit subsidies. The vast majority of voters do not want to subsidize city dwellers transportation. That’s the politics of it. Unlike London or Paris or Moscow or Stockholm, NYC is not a national Capital, which further diminishes our chances of getting government help.
bxgrl, I’m not a complete waste of space… not completely. 🙂
— i meant non-english speaking immigrants —
i suspect major non-participation from non-speaking immigrant groups as well as the hasidic. believe i read that the entire community did not fill out the surveys in Williamsburg which throws off the number of children in the area dramatically for instance.
Huge loss of population for Green-Wood cemetery, according to the interactive map.
> Expanded and/or new train lines.
> Light rail, more express buses, more buses, period
We can dream, MM, we can dream.
As it stands, the city seems content to let even the existing system crumble into a shabby state. For a so-called world class city, our mass transit system is a bit of a disgrace. Sure, we can all get around, but do most of the stations have to be such wretched pits?