Census: Brownstone Belt Gets Richer
The Eagle takes a look at 2010 Census data for Community Districts 2 and 6, “representing most of Brownstone Brooklyn,” and finds the areas have added more residents and gotten more well-to-do since 2000. The two districts added 11,000 people during that period; although more than two-thirds of households rent their homes, that’s a decline…
The Eagle takes a look at 2010 Census data for Community Districts 2 and 6, “representing most of Brownstone Brooklyn,” and finds the areas have added more residents and gotten more well-to-do since 2000. The two districts added 11,000 people during that period; although more than two-thirds of households rent their homes, that’s a decline of 4 percent; and the “number of households in those areas that have a yearly income of less than $35,000 has gone down 11 percent. At 27 percent, this is much less than in Brooklyn as a whole and in the city.” Meanwhile, as the article notes, the wealth of the two districts “may actually be understated, due to the presence of large low-income housing projects in Red Hook, Gowanus and Fort Greene.”
Brownstone Districts Show Growth in Population, Wealth [Eagle]
I have to say that most people who have well-paying jobs at major corporations (like media companies, etc.) DO vest in pension plans, even in this day and age. So if you want to go with the stereotype of a limousine liberal, such a person is probably fine for retirement, esp if they are management. And if they own a business or are docs or something like that, then of course they figure out their own plans with IRAs and such. So who are these actual people you speak of, Jaguar?
@sparafucile or how about I’ll save and pay for my own retirement and public employees can do the same.
> It is one of the political wonders of the age…
“A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, ‘Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.’”
Out the entire day, but back in time to wonder how a survey can proport to “represent most of brownstone Brooklyn” can leave out most of brownstone Brooklyn. They did not look at Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, together making up more brownstones, not to mention acreage, than all the rest put together. Nor did they include Prospect Lefferts Gardens or Sunset Park, both chock full of brownstones, since every row house is called a brownstone. But then, that might skew the numbers all to hell, making their conclusions, well, inconclusive.
Instead of wondering why they have what you don’t, you should wonder why you don’t have what they do.
It is one of the political wonders of the age that the Koch brothers, Fox News, etc. have been able to direct middle- and working-class resentment toward those few workers who still have fringe benefits, instead of against the people at the top who are reaping an ever greater share of the nation’s wealth.
“Talk to some of them, they’ll tell you all about how they don’t get a pension so why should some public employee”
Yes this is what I wonder.
I’m all for what’s going on in WI, OH & IN with the public pensions. Also, before you all fly off without knowing all the facts, only SOME forms of collective bargaining will go away and not collective bargaining for wages. If you’re going to heap shit on me you better know the facts and the details. Most of the people protesting DO NOT.
http://www.mcny.org/public-programs/all/Invention-of-Brownstone-Brooklyn.html
Don’t know any “limousine liberals” (that convenient cliche) but all the regular ol’ liberals I know are pro-union and very upset about what is going on in Wisconsin, etc.