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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English speaking & posting lessons from BRG. NOW I’VE SEEN EVERYTHING.
Besides, homes where “only English was spoken” are, by definition, less educated.
Let’s see where that one takes us!!!!
I think he was kidding about your white gigolo comment, No z?
z…which part? I posted a lot of crap today…some of which I actually believe and some which was, crap.
If you’re referring to my 11:48 post then that I truly believe is the case.
“Males living with children are fairly uncommon.”
What about males that act like children (as exhibited in yesterday’s heated topic)
“Only a little more than half of the population “5 years old and older†lived in homes where only English was spoken”
Only a little more than half of Brownstoner posters speak english.
“The What does sound a little contradictory today. Yesterday he advocated blacks should mug, rob, and murder each other so white people won’t move into black neighborhoods. ”
OK That’s it! Where is the comment?? I advocated that blacks should mug, rob, and murder each other so white people won’t move into black neighborhoods???????? Where in the ferk I said such garbage???!!!
This is the book that I”m reading now..
William Bonner & Addison Wiggin – Empire of Debt – The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis
Here is a excerpt:
Let us begin by noticing that this is a comic opera that seems as though
it might veer into tragedy at any moment. The characters on stage are familiar
to us—consumers, economists, politicians, investors, and businessmen.
They are the same hustlers, clowns, rubes, and dumbbells that we
always see before us. But in today’s performance they are doing somethingextraordinary, they are the richest people on the planet, but they have come
to rely on the savings of the world’s poorest people just to pay their bills.
They routinely spend more than they make—and think they can continue
doing so indefinitely. They go deeper and deeper in debt, believing they
will never have to settle up. They buy houses and then mortgage them
out—room by room, until they have almost nothing left.
They invade foreign
countries in the belief that they are spreading freedom and democracy,
and depend on lending from Communist China to pay for it.
But people come to believe whatever they must believe when they
must believe it. All these conceits and illusions that we find so amusing
in the Daily Reckoning (www.dailyreckoning.com), come not from
thinking, but from circumstances.
I remember not too long ago (October) people was running around like “Man on Fire”! I did not hear a peep from most of you, it was very quite. Now since everyone thinks everything is OK (The bottom is in) nonsense. The Asshats are back to pounding their chest and “claiming” victory. I want to see the expressions on your face when Obama cannot stop the onslaught of a collapsing Mutant Asset Bubble. You see dumbasses you need more debt to fund more debt. Buh bye…..
The What (Party like it’s 2009)
Someday this war is gonna end…
MM, I had very little chance for QOTD as it was, but you’ve totally erased that for me now. Seriously, what a powerful post and knowing someone of your caliber feels the same way as me (you just express it infinitely more eloquently) confirms, at least to me, that my views are justified.
I’ll bet he cooks too. And not just grills, but cooks.
Noki: You are now officially obsessed dear!
Actually, the cooking thing is sexy to me. I like a guy that can cook, and not just heat things up, really cook.
nice bit of racism, dave!
Is that denton??? He has one of those ranges. It’s such an environmentally unfriendly piece of equipment we’ve heard. But its more lusted after than a young white gigolo.