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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“Did you see our hedge fund returns..I posted thim in the other thread”
I give you my money and you turn around and lose 16%?
We are a nation of retards… We are a nation of idiots.. We are a nation of delusional masses…
The What
Someday this idiocy is gonna end…
“The Mutant Asset Bubble is dead on Jan 21, 2009!”
We now have an official date posted by the What at 12:49
Time to start planning a big party. There will be two reasons to celebrate that date.
i disagree…i was talking about my specific block. far be it from me to make gross generalisations. You’re point about “returning blacks” is probably largely true.
I’m sorry if my observation about the situation on my specific block raised concern that I was generalizing. I wasn’t trying to.
What…try and comprehend what benson was saying before commenting about something completely different…debt of consumers vs. the US government.
Did you see our hedge fund returns..I posted thim in the other thread
“With everyone jumping on the green bandwagon and many of those Mcmansions going into foreclosure in the burbs it will cause people to downsize and move to Urban areas with better public transpotation.”
Not with gas at 1.50 a gallon
“With the new age of technology in NYC I also see lower crime in the coming years. Cameras will be everywhere in the coming years helping the NYPD combat criminals.”
The real criminals are in Government and Wall Street….
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
I will just post this. Unemployment Huh?
KB Toys Files Bankruptcy, Citing ‘Sudden’ Sales Drop (Update1)
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By Steven Church
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — KB Toys Inc., the 86-year-old toy retailer, filed for bankruptcy three years after leaving court protection, blaming a cash crisis caused by a “sudden†drop in sales at its 277 stores.
The company, based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, exited bankruptcy in 2005 after closing hundreds of stores. KB Toys said in court papers today it owes as much as $500 million to creditors and has as much as $500 million in assets.
“The liquidity crisis is directly attributable to a sudden and sharp decline in consumer sales,†Controller Raymond Borst said in court documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware.
The company is controlled by Prentice Capital Management Inc., which acquired a majority stake when KB Toys left bankruptcy, according to court documents.
KB employs almost 11,000 employees, about 6,500 of whom are temporary workers brought in for the holidays, Borst said in court documents.
The retailer’s debt include $190 million owed to lenders and $27.2 million owed to a toy company in Hong Kong.
The case is In re KB Toys Inc., 08-13269 U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware (Wilmington).
To contact the reporter on this story: Steven Church in Wilmington, Delaware, at schurch3@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: December 11, 2008 11:16 EST
The What (The sandwich board says to “Suck me off”)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Oh like me rip this apart!
“The What is a fear-mongerer, who knows not of what he speaks.”
What was October a blur??? I nailed that!
“The fact of the matter is that the level of indebtedness in the US is not that high”
Really??!! You can’t be that delusion Benson! People brought house with no money down, 500 credit scores, 1 day out of Bankruptcy and other nonsense! Credit Card debt is very bad and people are losing their jobs!!!!
“-in comparison to other industrialized countries, the debt-to-gdp ratio of the US is not that high – it comes in the middle of the pack. For example, the ratio is much higher for Japan. During their “lost decade” of the 90’s,Japan took on massive debt to splurge on infrastructure, in the hope that it would stimulate their economy. It did not work for them, and I am afraid that Obama is going to make the same mistake. See Amity Shlaes’ column in the NYP today on this topic.”
No he is not! Google the name Paul Volker Dumbass!!!!!!!! Volker is Obama’s economic advisor. The Mutant Asset Bubble is dead on Jan 21, 2009!
“The comparisons to the Great Depression make for great headlines, but is true hyperbole. The unemployment rate during this time shot up to 25%. We’re not even close to there.”
I love when the retards roll this out. The 25% unemployment rate was in 1934! 3 Years after the market had crashed!!!!!!!!!! Unemployment is around 12% now, don’t beLIEve with the Government says!
“benson, please do not try to confuse the What with actual facts.”
Yeah Benson, please do not try to confuse the What with actual facts. Now put your helmet back on…
The What
Someday this delusion is gonna end…
DIBS, not so fast. there may be some basis on which to say that newcomers are less conscientious than the conscientious people who’ve been there a while. but i don’t get why when you discuss these careless newcomers, they’re of all races except black. and why assume that because people “are there currently” that they’re conscientious or that they have any greater investment in their neighborhood than people of any color or ethnic background who have sacrificed much to be there? assuming as if everyone else but black folks are newcomers, and all black people are invested old-timers is weird and just not true.
and there’s been discussion in this thread about black professionals who are “returning” to these neighborhood and driving positive change. “returning” is a weird way of putting it – i am willing to bet that for the most part, the black professionals are newcomers too. they just happen to share an ethnic (actually, ethnic isn’t the right word, given the diversity of black ethnicities, so, really, it’s just color) commonality with a majority of the “old timers.” so, it’s just because they’re black that they’re positive forces for change? and if they were white professionals they’d be less conscientious?
Montrose again, with a great post, 12:16pm
“we all made at least one solid point somewhere along the line.”
Not me, my only solid point was about Red Hoodie Man.
“I would like to hear from the DILF himself.”
I would like to hear from the DILF, myself!!
benson, please do not try to confuse the What with actual facts.