Crown Heights-the most integrated nabe in NYC?

As someone who loves maps, yup, this is very cool.

From casual travel, I've observed that NYC is one of the few cities in the US that has integrated neighborhoods.

....but it is also one of the few cities wherein the weathly sometmes live literally next to the poor (one building has a doorman, the other has a broken vandalized door...). Which begs the question: In NYC, is your neighborhood sometimes just your building?

Also segregation is not always a bad thing. Urban Planners spend hours discussing whether certain neighborhoods are closer to "ethnic ghettos" or "voluntary ethnic enclaves". [there's a BIG difference: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ethnic+enclave ]

As a place that is constantly changing, Crown Heights may be very integrated now, but might not be in a few years. The guy who made the map seems to be using Census 2000 data. It is interesting that CH was that integrated then, because I used to feel as if I was one of the few white guys on Franklin or Nostrand Ave at the time.

Needless to say, I have felt less "conspicuously pasty" (damn, that would make a good signature for someone!) in the last few years.

The 2010 data should be interesting to see ....lots of new buildings have gone up, with professionals of all varieties living in them.

Likewise, in CH as well as citywide, a lot of landlords have dropped out of Section 8 in order to receive market rate rents. The whole city is constantly changing. NYC is an expensive place to live, and there are becoming fewer areas and apartments that are "immune" from the forces of capitalism.

Some believe that NYCHA and the "variety of co-ops overseen by DHCR", remain the last great refuges, but I disagree.

As a result of capitalism, NYCHA has a 7 year wait list, and those co-op lotteries have thousands of applicants for dozens of apartments.

As a result of this demand, both kick out rule breakers and undesirables in a heart beat. DHCR coops now have a "minimum income" that is out of reach of much of NYC's working class. ....in this way, they have been affected as well.

Some see the country as becoming socialist. ....they must be focusing on something else.

If you like maps, http://www.socialexplorer.com/ also has great ones.

Access to maps of full census data by year, by census tract, and viewable by various metrics and at zoom of your choice.

Click maps tab and enjoy!

Courtesy of Andrew Beveridge and his amazing collaborators at Social Explorer.

(& obligatory statement that I have no connection to them)

CLAYFILMS, thank-you for sharing this! It's really great!

I don't understand how you concluded that Crown Heights was one of the most integrated neighborhoods in NYC though. The area marked Crown Heights looks like a patch of "white" (actually "pink") in the middle of a lake of "black" (actually "blue"). Nearby Clinton Hill/Prospect Heights/Fort Greene is quite integrated though. Am I missing something?

I was surprised by how much "white" there was in Crown Heights, until I realized that the Jewish population falls into that category.

krowonhill's right. the crown heights dot has only a red/blue mixture in comparison to the sourrounding sea of central BK blue, whereas other neighborhoods' dots look a little more, er, rainbow-ish. the red-blue mixture may jump out at you if you're not considering the eastern CH Hasidic community. And it's from 2000, roughly a decade B.G. (Before Gentrification).

yeah, exactly.