2016 Postmortem

RandySF

(58,835 posts) Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:30 PM Apr 2016

Can someone tell me more about Brooklyn?

Nate Silver said yesterday that the hipsters only make up about 35% of the borough. Is this true?

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Can someone tell me more about Brooklyn? (Original Post) RandySF Apr 2016 OP

Brooklyn manages a pretty darn passable imitation... Lizzie Poppet Apr 2016 #1

You clearly need to get out of Brownstone Brooklyn... brooklynite Apr 2016 #4

Only 35%? onehandle Apr 2016 #2

Brooklyn has 2.5 MILLION people; most of them are not millennials in Williamsburg brooklynite Apr 2016 #3

It's a lot lower than 35%. Just in terms of white voters, geek tragedy Apr 2016 #5

Also, Brooklyn's gotten pretty gentrified already; a lot of people have moved further out, snot Apr 2016 #6

35% seems high, frankly TheDormouse Apr 2016 #7

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)

1. Brooklyn manages a pretty darn passable imitation...

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:33 PM

Apr 2016

...of Portland.

brooklynite

(94,572 posts)

4. You clearly need to get out of Brownstone Brooklyn...

Reply to Lizzie Poppet (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:35 PM

Apr 2016

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

2. Only 35%?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:33 PM

Apr 2016

Based on my experience there, that seems low.

brooklynite

(94,572 posts)

3. Brooklyn has 2.5 MILLION people; most of them are not millennials in Williamsburg

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:35 PM

Apr 2016

Huge African American population (which drives a lot of Borough politics), Hassidic neighborhoods in South Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park, Asians in Sunset Park, Russians in Brighton Beach, Muslims along Atlantic Ave...

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

5. It's a lot lower than 35%. Just in terms of white voters,

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:37 PM

Apr 2016

there are not only working class but also professional voters and of course age-wise lots of people older than 35.

And that doesn't even get into the cultural diversity here--Caribbean, African-American, Latino, Jewish, etc.

hipsters are concentrated in a few neighborhoods--Williamsburgh, Bushwick, Prospect Heights--that are either gentrified or gentrifying.

snot

(10,529 posts)

6. Also, Brooklyn's gotten pretty gentrified already; a lot of people have moved further out,

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:38 PM

Apr 2016

many to Bushwick, Queens, or the Bronx.

TheDormouse

(1,168 posts)

7. 35% seems high, frankly

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 03:52 PM

Apr 2016

Hipsters are just in a few neighborhoods. Brookly is a huge borough.

Search Google for images of Brooklyn West Indian Day parade, which is held every Labor Day down Eastern Parkway.

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