Tag: demographics
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22,000 Housing Units? Sounds Low.
CityRealty, as reported in DNA is estimating that 22,000 new apartments will be built in northern Brooklyn between now and 2019. Northern Brooklyn in this case means Red Hook to Bushwick, and everything in between. Their estimate only includes “large” developments of 20 units or more, so it is necessarily a low estimate. A really…
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Census Numbers Show Big Jump in Brooklyn Population
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/census-numbers-show-big-jump-brooklyn-population-article-1.1059951
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Demographic Shift as Minorities Move to Suburbs
The Times has two interesting articles based on the latest data dump from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The first article looks at local trends, and finds that Metropolitan New York is being rapidly reshaped as blacks, Latinos, Asians and immigrants surge into the suburbs, while gentrification by whites is widening the income gap…