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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And I love red hoodies 😉
Holiday parties are still being held, but this is a WORK-related holiday party, which is much less common in 2008.
I love red sweaters!
Biff, silly, no hidden messages ever 🙂
Holiday parties are still being held. I went to a holiday party last night, and going to 4 next week.
I’m wearing a red sweater to all of them!
BRG, looks like another hidden meaning there! I have a holiday party tonight – yes, they still exist. I then plan on going through a couple of proposals after that. Could be a late night!
Biff, Census says, I need you to look at something, before you doze off.
The What was rude to MM in the QOTD 11217. Blog Patrol better get over there pronto!
sam’s being rude in the parrot thread 11217.
BRG, 11217 is going back and forth between this and the other thread arguing with the two of us. He clearly enjoys this much more than trying to constructively contribute to a discussion in one of the numerous threads we haven’t participated in.
“Yesterday I was having a conversation (primarily with Cobblehiller) which was about the topic at hand. Or at least related to the topic at hand.”
Yes, I read the MATURE conversation you were having!
“A joke here and there is great, but you all have literally taken over every thread with nonsense.”
A mature person would see that it’s not EVERY Thread. We confine our banter to one or two. Mr. B can delete every single post if he chooses to, from every single thread, and has not yet.
“100’s of comments in some cases of back and forth between 3 or 4 people so that the “real” comments get lost in the shuffle. That’s a shame.”
Yes, it was a shame, yesterday. 220 posts between the same 3 or 4 people full of vile nonsense.
“It’s too much, and if you are too blind to see that, then you are even more immature than I had thought.”
Yes, I read plenty of immaturity yesterday.
Here’s my post from the thread that YOU ran amok yesterday.
“WOW!!! Thank god I had work to do yesterday.
While this thread disintegrated early on. I found some of the posts amusing, a few defusing and many dehumanizing.
What a disarray and petty display of inappropriate shallowness.
Everybody, have some Egg Nog! And spike it a little.
Congratulations, Wasder! Another girl to the mix, you will be blessed. Please share the news when she arrives.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 11, 2008 9:00 AM”
Should I cut and paste all the ‘mature’ comments you made in that thread…oh, wait, I can’t find any!