Get the Skinny

I always think it is funny when people tell me about all the trust funders and millionaires in North Brooklyn. It's gentrifying, sure, but actual demographics don't always reflect the media image that persists. A new website gives stats that show that 53.4% of residents in 11211 earn less than $50,000/year, and that both unemployment and poverty are above the US average. The stats in 11222 are similar, with 68.6% earning less than $50,000/year, and both unemployment and poverty are above the US average here as well.

This info is based on the 2000 census, and there have been dramatic changes since then but it is still worth noting, again, that there is more to our community than what you see barhopping on Bedford and Franklin Avenues.

Photo by David Muir, via a Creative Commons License.