The Brooklyn Neighborhood Reports are Here!

Following months of research and detail-gathering, the Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, with the support of Brooklyn Community Foundation has released the first-ever Brooklyn Neighborhood Reports.

The report—more than 600 pages in all—present comprehensive data on Brooklyn’s 18 Community Districts, as well a Brooklyn-wide report, in a way that’s never been done before.

The data we often have to dig for every ten years when the Census comes out has been packaged into 19 in-depth summaries that provide a deeper knowledge about each of the distinctive and diverse neighborhoods that we call home.

The reports feature concise, easy-to-read graphs and maps of neighborhood-level data across nine key indicators of civic health:

• Demographics
• Youth & Education
• Economy
• Housing
• Environment
• Health
• Public Safety
• Arts & Culture
• Civic Engagement

 “As we consider the data from across our distinct communities from Williamsburg and Bay Ridge to Park Slope and Brownsville, we begin to identify developments and disparities that confirm our progress, but also our challenges, and reveal the impact of new residents—not just former Manhattanites and the latest generation of creative young people, but an ever increasing number of striving immigrants from China, Mexico, Jamaica, and Haiti,” said Marilyn Gelber, Brooklyn Community Foundation President.

“We hope these Brooklyn data will not only be useful in helping grantmakers, non-profits, the business community, and public officials in their planning, but more importantly, we hope they will empower and inspire all Brooklynites to take on local challenges and create positive change from the ground up.”
The first-ever Brooklyn Trends Report will also be published in 2012 by the Center for the Study of Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Community Foundation, and will provide a more in-depth examination of borough-wide and neighborhood data for the nine aforementioned theme areas.

Check back to Bed-Stuy Patch over the next few days, as we will begin examining the results of these key indicators and their impact in Bedford-Stuyvesant.