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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Boerum Hill;
I agree 100% with what you are saying. Once again, however, if you compare the US to the other indistrialized nations, we out looking pretty good.
Most of the other nations have more generous social welfare plicies than the US, AND they have an older population. Indeed, Japan is starting to enter into a demogrpahic tailspin.
Benson,
If you put off-balance sheet items like Medicare and Social Security on the govenrment’s balance sheet (the way a Company would have to report their health care + retirement obligations), those debt to income calculations won’t look as good.
Areas in NY change. When my great uncles came to NY from VA in 1901 they lived on 66th and CPW. The Lincoln Center area was a Harlem type of area in those days. To tell you the truth that area was not all the great until after Lincoln Center was built in the 1960s. Just take a look at west side story. It is very common for areas to change ethnic groups. North Brooklyn is beginning to have a larger new white population move in while many of the natives are moving out of state for a change. Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights is starting to look like it did in the 1950s. Many upper middle class African Americans are moving into these areas along with whites many European born that have no prejudices against people that don’t look like themselves. Together the new along with the old timers (who seem very happy to pass the torch) in these communities are reviving these grand neighborhoods back to there original state.
I love the idea of waltzing in after a long lunch, sorry to disappoint you – but it was a BLT at my desk with the Huffington Post. While I eavesdropped on our Managing Director while he was consolling a London employee who just let a long time employee go. It’s all fun and games until someody loses an eye…
‘And I threw in the answer so I wouldn’t get a bunch of assinine posts from people like you two.’
Well, can you have thrown in the answer/explanation to ‘what the Census says about us’ so I wouldn’t have to read a bunch of assinine posts from people like you!
z brought up the mouse first in the thread above me. Don’t come waltzing in here after your long lunches and start telling me i’m off-off topic.
And I threw in the answer so I wouldn’t get a bunch of assinine posts from people like you two.
🙂
PWEA (Pompous White Elitist Asshat)
‘ Anyone want to guess how old it is??’
If you’re going to tell us to guess, give us some time!!!
Gees…don’t throw in the answer.
Elitist Asshat!
DIBS, that is neither on topic or even on our off topics, you’ve created a new realm of off-off-topics!
Yesterday was the anniversary of the invention of the mouse. Anyone want to guess how old it is?? Clue: It has nothing to do with when PCs first appeared.
1968…40 years!!!