What the Census Says About Us
“Carroll Gardens is getting whiter! Williamsburg is getting smarter! And the Park Slope baby boom is real!” That’s the Brooklyn Paper’s three exclamation point recap of the census data released yesterday; we’re still a very diverse borough, but the make-up has shifted. Richer, whiter folks have displaced minority families since 2000 in neighborhoods west of…
“Carroll Gardens is getting whiter! Williamsburg is getting smarter! And the Park Slope baby boom is real!” That’s the Brooklyn Paper‘s three exclamation point recap of the census data released yesterday; we’re still a very diverse borough, but the make-up has shifted. Richer, whiter folks have displaced minority families since 2000 in neighborhoods west of Prospect Park, from the Slope to Red Hook, which “had the biggest jump in median household income — 23 percent, to $77,784 — partly because nearly a fifth of black and Hispanic families, who earn half as much as their white counterparts, left during the seven-year period.” Carroll Gardens, Park Slope and Cobble Hill have indeed had baby booms — “The number of children under-5 shot up 35 percent in the area” — and around 80 percent more college graduates have flocked to Williamsburg than lived there in 2000. Neighborhoods further out in Brooklyn grew more diverse, with white populations shrinking slightly in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst, and the Asian population increasing by 34 percent. The Brooklyn Eagle looked at the number of “now married” and “never married” folks (roughly the same size), and found that two-parent families are most common, followed by female-headed families. “Ninety-one percent of those surveyed lived in the same house or apartment they lived in a year ago,” they write, signaling that perhaps folks are moving less, or the influx of folks from other boroughs and states is slowing. And the highest concentration of rents fall between $750 and $1,500; must still be plenty of rent stabilized pads out there.
Census ‘Community Survey’ Reveals Facts About Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
Making Census of Brooklyn [Brooklyn Paper]
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goldie – word. i “displaced” a minority family in much the same way that the minority family “displaced” a million dollars from me! maybe we were “richer” at some point, but we sure ain’t now.
Yes What…if the Asshats leave “everything get worse.” You got that right.
No Dave! If stay around Beford Stuyvesant long enough you will see this first hand! Plenty of Asshats RENT Dave not own. When they lose their Jobs or get robbed the will move back to Ohio!!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
“The same thing will happen when the Great Depression 2 sets in! The “nice White People” are going to call U-Hall and pack up and leave! Then our neighborhood will go back to the “Bad old days”! This is my main problem with Gentrification! When things don’t “work out” and the Asshats leave everything get worse!!!!!!”
Wow- we white asshats are damned if we do, damned if we don’t. So, What, looks like gentrification is not all bad in your book? Yes folks- the What said it here.
Oh no! Don’t die DIBS! At least not until you explain the Mexican boyfriend 🙂
Let us know when you get the money to move out of Bed-Stuy too- we’ll follow you anywhere.(I heard the What had a nose hair weave)
Montrose- they have nifty metallic colored staples now. You can color coordinate your outfits, arrange them in a pattern, like hair jewelry.
“Yes, and at least 100 posts will be from DIBS, 11217, Rob et.al. commenting about how hot the DILF in the red hoody is.”
Include me in the et.al.
There is definitely something hot about a guy pushing a baby carriage, or zipping up a child’s coat, or wiping their mouth with a napkin, etc.
“The “nice White People” are going to call U-Hall and pack up and leave! Then our neighborhood will go back to the “Bad old days”! ”
What please die.
Not too much controversial info in that article. In fact, it is about as bland and expected a description of new census info as one could expect. Maybe there won’t be 200 posts afterall.
“When he decided to flee NY for Florida, he practically had to give these homes away, as nobody wanted them. ”
Oh no Dumbass! That was “white flight” and it brought on urban decay in New york during the 70’s and 80’s. No one made the White people to flee the city, racism was the main culprit behind that. Don’t sit up and slide that piece of crap here! And guess what??!! The same thing will happen when the Great Depression 2 sets in! The “nice White People” are going to call U-Hall and pack up and leave! Then our neighborhood will go back to the “Bad old days”! This is my main problem with Gentrification! When things don’t “work out” and the Asshats leave everything get worse!!!!!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…