5:45 pm Jun. 12, 20126
Brooklyn is home to four of the top 25 fastest gentrifying zip codes nationwide, according to an analysis by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Michael Petrilli.
Petrilli, the Institute's executive vice president and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, yesterday posted an article on the Institute's blog entitled, "The fastest-gentrifying neighborhoods in the United States."
He based his analysis on Census Bureau data. Here's how he explained his methodology:
I looked at zip codes (which isn’t perfect, because boundaries can change) and places with a large increase in the white share of the population (which isn’t perfect, because you’d really want to look at changes in income levels, but those data aren’t available yet for 2010).
So really, as Choire Sicha has it, these might more accurately be called the "fastest-whitening" neighborhoods.
The report found that the Columbia, South Carolina zip code of 29202 showed the largest increase in its white share of population, from 32.6 percent in 2000 to 79.7 in 2010, but four neighborhoods in Brooklyn weren't far behind.
Parts of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, which have traditionally been known as middle-class black neighborhoods, showed a dramatic increase in white population, with the sixth-ranked 11205 zip code showing a jump from 19.7 percent in 2000 to 49.3 in 2010.
Two zip codes encompassing parts of Williamsburg also ranked, with the white share of 11206 increasing from 16.6 percent to 45.6 percent; and the white share of 11237 increasing from from 22.6 percent to 42.3 percent.
Also in the top 25: The Prospect Heights zip code of 11238, whose white share grew from 16.8 percent to 38.3 percent.
No other New York City zip codes made it into the top 25.
Harlem is soon to join the list. Gentrification is one of the ugliest things to happen to a community. It's scary to see whites take part in such activity with no remorse, or at least understanding. But with all due respect, look at their history. The history of white America is based on taking from others. I can't say I'm surprised.
AmberV, you keep posting the same ignorant information on different blogs. Enough already! Cities are complex systems. They change, expand and integrate new functions. The black folks in Harlem and Brooklyn filled in the gaps of housing starting in the 1930's when white class folks moved out of the inner city to find more space and peace in the suburbs ie; NJ, Long Island, Connecticut etc..look up "White Flight" As we see in the data it turns out that "white flight" is round-trip, it just took longer than most people expected and thus the shock when other class groups move back into a neighborhood. There is an increasing demand for high skilled workers and also and huge demand to live near the metro so we don't have to drive gas guzzling, pollution burners anymore. Learn more and live better!
I agree and I am not surprised. It's as if they are born with a sense of entitlement to do as they please with little to no regards for others. I an starting to believe that out of all the races, the Caucasian race is the one with the least empathy in their genetic make-up.
I found this study that fortifies the point I made in my above statement. The ability to feel empathy for others is built into genetic make-up, unfortunately some people are born with the inability to feel empathy while others choose not to feel empathy.
http://restructure.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/white-people-lack-empathy-fo...
You are both misreading the situation. White people don't move into poor neighborhoods out of any malicious lack of empathy for the locals. They move into poor neighborhoods because they can't afford to live in wealthy ones. The phenomenon is economic.
And on the whole, the gentrification of the inner cities has been a good trend. Populations concentrated in the cities, using public transportation, and living in multi-dwelling buildings, is more sustainable environmentally than the 20th century model of suburban sprawl.
Gentrified neighborhoods have a better mix of incomes and cultures, more types of commerce, more art galleries, all those good things that make a community healthy.
The problem is not gentrification in general, but lack of housing in particular. There's not enough of it, and rents are too high. That is a challenge for city governments, and it has to be met. But to some extent gentrification will alleviate that problem as well. When new condominium towers are built, for example, they take pressure off the competition for existing housing. If a new condo goes into default, it can be converted to subsidized housing.
AmberV, you keep posting the same ignorant information on different blogs. Enough already! Cities are complex systems. They change, expand and integrate new functions. The black folks in Harlem and Brooklyn filled in the gaps of housing starting in the 1930's when white class folks moved out of the inner city to find more space and peace in the suburbs ie; NJ, Long Island, Connecticut etc..look up "White Flight" As we see in the data it turns out that "white flight" is round-trip, it just took longer than most people expected and thus the shock when other class groups move back into a neighborhood. There is an increasing demand for high skilled workers and also and huge demand to live near the metro so we don't have to drive gas guzzling, pollution burners anymore. Learn more and live better!