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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“Nothing like hijacking a thread on the 2nd post though is there?”
Come on, DIBS, it was lovable wasder in the FIRST thread who made me do it.
Ok, sorry everyone, back to the topic. longtimelistener, I believe DIBS was merely pointing out that discussions here around race, income, stroller moms, etc. almost always at some point turn to less than constructive insult-hurling matches for singles vs. parents, renters vs. owners, rich vs. poor, my neighborhood vs. your neighborhood, etc. However, the data can and should be used for more constructive dialogue, which would have been nice during the gentrification discussion the other day. Unfortunately, headlines from the media like the Brooklyn Paper’s (“Carroll Gardens is getting whiter! Williamsburg is getting smarter! And the Park Slope baby boom is real!”) don’t help encourage intelligent and courteous exchanges.
“Do anyone see how low Brownstoner has become?” I’d like to see the census data for Lodi, NJ and how it describes the fall in the education level since you moved there.
Race Bait Clap Trap! Yep! I knew Brownstoner would go this route!!!
And the Asshats say that I’m a Racist????!!!!!! How in the hell is this promoting any kind of harmony??
2009 Please get here!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Do anyone see how low Brownstoner has become?
pretty soon everyone is going to be asian
new here longtimelistener???
Nothing like hijacking a thread on the 2nd post though is there?
“Ninety-one percent of those surveyed lived in the same house or apartment they lived in a year ago,” I wouldn’t have thought the number would be much different anytime, anywhere!!!
Why is it “pushing every button” to examine census data, which asks folks their races and ages and incomes, etc? This doesn’t seem inflammatory to me. It seems informative. Can there be a discussion of the data itself, or do we have to talk about how to talk about it?
Not my type Biff but I bet you’re drooling over that MILF to the left with the big stoop and the double stroller.
I was just about to type the same thing wasder…this one pushes every button….white/black, rich/poor, strollers, kids, cell phones, hipsters, asians, rent stabilization, bitter renters, blah, blah, blah
Merry Christmas.