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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my main gripe with the what is that i’m developing repetitive stress injury in my index finger from using the mouse wheel to scroll past all his long-ass comments.
Actually it is modification of an old saying
“finding a turd in my milk”
which I guess if the farmer was not careful when milking the cow was a possibility
I must concur with Dave on his nomination for QOTD. That was a genuine belly laugh.
But I disagree strongly with your plea to Brownstoner ESP1967. Free speech is a beautiful thing. If you don’t like what the What has to say, skip along. Truly. It is an easy enough undertaking. I do it all the time.
Why ban the What? I don’t agree with everything he says, but this board wouldn’t be half as interesting without him.
QOTD “Everytime I read a posting from The What it is like finding a turd in my drink”
I gotta ask, where and how often??? Please “out” the restaurant as well.
Yes What but up nicely since inception in 1993. Also up 3 & 5 years. You just can’t comprehend the whole long-term investing thing can you???
Brownstoner,
We are all guilty of giving The What too much importance
To be fair, he was treated as a Cassandra regarding the financial meltdown and there are still some on this site who don’t realize the horror show most of us are experiencing and will continue to experience and possibly worse
However, If you want the WHAT to go away then the smartest course of action is to simply ignore his posts and not comment on them
I wanted to read this posting for feedback on the census and found very little on topic
I have enough of my own doom & gloom thoughts, thank you, and really do not need to read doom and gloom vitriol written with such mirthful glee .
Brownstoner, I enjoyed the site more when the What was relegated to the Forum section
Everytime I read a posting from The What it is like finding a turd in my drink
Please consider limiting him to the Forum and those who enjoy his brand of postings can follow him there
Before anyone tells me to go back to Ohio, I was born & raised and have lived all my life in NYC(all boroughs except the Bronx) , I am emotionally as well as financially invested in this great neighborhood (Fort Greene, Wallabout, Clinton Hill & Bed-Stuy) and have no plans on being part of a new wave of Flight
Again, Brownstoner, Please reconsider limiting The What to the Forum
DIBS, a guest is Hannible. I don’t know why she’s bothering with us here. She could be whining in Carroll Gardens in the hopes that an evil landlord gives her a free apartment.
it’s not just you DIBS. the entire gentrification monologue is filled with gross generalizations, sloppy mischaracterizations and irrational outrage. i usually find it tiresome and pointless to engage, but on occasion it seems necessary to dress some of it down.