The Great Awakening - Brooklyn
The Great Awakening - New York Times: "The population is approaching the historic high of 1950, when Brooklyn was home to 2.74 million souls."
Great piece in the Sunday Times about our little borough here east of Manhattan. The level of diversity is approaching that of other places considered very diverse, San Francisco, for example. I think in another 10 years the demographic maps will probably turn completely over - although the way things are going there won't be many Irish or Italians left in Brooklyn, but who knows?
Living in Fort Greene, it's always interesting to see how it's portrayed - in this case, as full of "yuppies" (a term I thought had thankfully been destroyed in the 90's). Not that I don't see yuppies here, but there are just as many if not more working class black folks who have been here for years, since long before it was a desirable and up and coming neighborhood. My only regret about living here is watching it in transition, starting to lose little bits of its character as it changes, and realizing that I might be part of the problem.
Great piece in the Sunday Times about our little borough here east of Manhattan. The level of diversity is approaching that of other places considered very diverse, San Francisco, for example. I think in another 10 years the demographic maps will probably turn completely over - although the way things are going there won't be many Irish or Italians left in Brooklyn, but who knows?
Living in Fort Greene, it's always interesting to see how it's portrayed - in this case, as full of "yuppies" (a term I thought had thankfully been destroyed in the 90's). Not that I don't see yuppies here, but there are just as many if not more working class black folks who have been here for years, since long before it was a desirable and up and coming neighborhood. My only regret about living here is watching it in transition, starting to lose little bits of its character as it changes, and realizing that I might be part of the problem.
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