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Facts and Stats About Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Community Foundation is dedicated to providing fact and research-based information about Brooklyn, its people and its institutions. Our grants and initiatives respond to demonstrated needs throughout our 70 neighborhoods.
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Brooklyn has the oldest housing stock in the City
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50% of NYC's community gardeners are in Brooklyn
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350,000 adults are high school drop outs
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Brooklyn has 30 miles of waterfront
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More than 500,000 Brooklynites live below the poverty line
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50,000 young adults in Brooklyn are out of school and unemployed
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Brooklyn has three times as many religious institutions and organizations (4,151) than Manhattan but with only one-quarter of the revenue
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Brooklyn has almost 700 arts and cultural institutions
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7.5% of Brooklynites are Asian
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35% of Brooklynites are white non-Hispanic
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Brooklyn has 852 drinking fountains
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Brooklyn has 60 public libraries
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Flatbush has the greatest number of foreclosures in the City
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Brooklyn has 973 acres of natural areas
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12% of all registered nonprofit organizations in New York State are in Brooklyn
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Only 9.5% of Brownsville residents 25 and older have a Bachelors Degree
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Four Manhattan-based organizations had almost $500 million more revenue in 2008 than all 2,233 Brooklyn public charities combined
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Brooklyn has 300 community developmentand employment organizations, 857 social service and health organizations, and 588 educational institutions
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Brooklyn has 6% more women than men
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Brooklyn has the largest number of Holocaust survivors
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38% of current Brooklynites are foreign born
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51.7% of Brooklynites work in Brooklyn
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34% of Brooklynites are African-American
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30% of Brooklyn third graders cannot read at grade level
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There are 188,428 Puerto Ricans in Brooklyn
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