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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Regarding my 10.28 post..
Make that “manufacturing powerhouse”. I think I’mbecoming dyslexic.
Well, this thread was train wrecked fast…
What this data says to me is that my wife and I were not the only people who got priced out of Manhattan and decided to move to Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, or Carroll Gardens. But I already knew that.
FWIW, I know the previous tenants of our apartment were a white couple with a kid, so we just maintained status quo. Actually, since we didn’t have the kid til after we’d been living there 7 months, maybe we brought the kid ratio down for a while?
The 91% people in same place number is meaningless without some historical data to compare it to.
“my Mexican boyfriend’s wife”??????????
Dave please die…
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
I’ve lived in Brooklyn all my life, and this census update is just one data point in a continuing saga. Brooklyn is a big place, capable of handling alot of changes in population, demographics and economics. The Brooklyn of the 19th and early 20th century – a maunfacturing powerhouse – bears almost no resemblance to the Brooklyn of today. More recently, I can draw on my own family’s history. My folks grew up in Red Hook and Carroll Gardens, and I spent the early part of my childhood there too (in the Red Hook projects). I recall the exodus of folks from this area in the 60’s and 70’s. My father’s friend owned a group of buildings at the corner of Smith St. and 3rd St. When he decided to flee NY for Florida, he practically had to give these homes away, as nobody wanted them. Seems hard to believe today, but I remember it like it was yesterday.
After many years of decline, Brooklyn is on the rise again. I welcome the folks who are moving to our Borough. They are injecting new life and prosperity to the place.
Good on ya, incite away!
Me, I’m tracking which hot-button issue gets the most hits – that is IF this thread stays on topic…
What…do you get eyebrow weaves???
Just trying to jump start the thread cobblehiller. I thought the posts had slowed down for a few seconds. In fact my Mexican boyfriend’s wife just had a baby on Thanksgiving. William, 9 lbs, 4 ozs!!!!!!
Very true,cthecat, very true.
What, you made me laugh. You sound like a junior high school girl.
Montrose Morris, PBA
The ‘influx’ was never from other boroughs or states. It was from other countries. The Eurotrash colonizing Williamsburg are the most visible to the typical Brownstoner, but the real numbers are in southern and eastern Brooklyn: Russians, Chinese, various Caribbean nationalities, Mexicans, etc.