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]
Photo by heimdalsgata.
haha it’s all cool DIBS – was just hoping for a way to pass the rest of the day at work! if you guys get bored can you do some hipster/stroller mom bashing while you’re at it!
BRG – are you referring to the fact that asians have the highest average education of any race in the US? I’m guessing most of them speak two languages though, no?
I’m with you, A Guest.
I love this kind of data, and find it really quite interesting yet the thread is filled with nonsense. I’m not surprised.
I’m not even going to start a discussion about it, because it seems pretty clear, not many are interested in the topic at hand.
I’ve sent it to a couple friends and we’ve been discussing it over email. Nice to have people who actually like to talk about important things from time to time.
“What” I actually see the reverse of white flight. 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.
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.
Montrose and all;
The What is a fear-mongerer, who knows not of what he speaks.
The fact of the matter is that the level of indebtedness in the US is not that high, when one looks at it from the perspective of debt-to-gdp ratio. I suggest you Google this topic, and you will learn the following things:
-the debt-to-gdp ratio in the US had been declining until recently, and historically speaking, is not that high. It was much higher after WWII and into the 50’s, for instance.
-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.
That is not to say that the recent problems are not real. Clearly there was too much leverage in the financial and housing sectors. If you look at other sectors, however, including manufacturing, materials, IT, etc., the level of debt is manageable.
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.
Come on A Guest…we all made at least one solid point somewhere along the line.
If you morons was listing to the “Nut” with the sandwich board, we would not be in this mess. The retards miss the point! You need INCOME to support DEBT!!! If take on more DEBT than INCOME that is called INSOLVENCY! Like AIG, Bear Sterns, Fannie Mae, Freedie Mac, Lehman Bros. Citibank, Like inert the next fail institution here!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
I got excited – a topic about brooklyn census data, and over 100 posts at lunchtime. But alas, just inane banter.
I would like to hear from the DILF himself. I wonder if he is a Brownstoner reader?