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The cost of living in the borough is now the second highest in the nation to Manhattan | 50% of Bed-Stuy residents devote more than 30% of their income to rent |
Brooklyn is home to four of the nation’s 25 most rapidly gentrifying ZIP codes | For homeless heads of household whose last residence was in Brooklyn, more than 30% were from the neighborhoods of East New York and Canarsie |
The number of Brooklyn-based firms spiked from 257 in 2001 to 433 in 2009 | Brooklyn has lost 23,000 manufacturing jobs over the past decade |
Nearly 20% of Brooklyn households have an income of $100,000 or more per year | Brooklyn’s median per capita income in 2009 was just under $23,000, almost $10,000 below the national average |
Park Slope Food Coop has more than 15,500 members | One in five Brooklynites is unable to afford food at some point during the year |
Jane’s Carousel Pavilion in Brooklyn Bridge Park won the Travel and Leisure Design Award for Best Public Space | Greenpoint has the borough’s highest number of federal Environmental Protection Agency toxic sites |
Community District 14 — that’s Ditmas Park, Midwood, Prospect Park South and nearby areas — has the highest high school graduation rate in Brooklyn | Only 27.5% of its students are deemed college-ready |
Brooklyn has 113 colleges and universities | Only 29% of borough residents have college degrees |
According to Corcoran, in the third quarter of 2012, the price of a two- to four-family townhouse throughout Brooklyn increased 33 percent vs. the same quarter the year before | Brooklyn leads the city in number of residents entering homeless shelters |
Brooklyn has more wealthy residents than Greenwich, Connecticut | Brooklyn is home to one of New York State’s poorest populations, with over one in five residents under the official poverty line, roughly 50 percent above the state average |