Brooklyn Community District 1 | |
Settlement Type: | Community District |
Pushpin Map: | USA New York City#USA New York#USA |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in New York City |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | City |
Subdivision Name2: | New York City |
Subdivision Type3: | Borough |
Subdivision Name3: | Brooklyn |
Parts Type: | Neighborhoods |
P1: | Greenpoint |
P2: | Williamsburg |
Leader Title: | Chair |
Leader Name: | Dealice Fuller |
Leader Title1: | District Manager |
Leader Name1: | Gerald A. Esposito |
Unit Pref: | US |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 4.7 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 173,083 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
Population Note: | [1] |
Demographics Type2: | Ethnicity |
Demographics2 Title4: | African-American |
Demographics2 Info4: | 4.5% |
Demographics2 Title3: | Asian |
Demographics2 Info3: | 7.5% |
Demographics2 Title2: | Hispanic and Latino (of any race) |
Demographics2 Info2: | 23.0% |
Demographics2 Title1: | White |
Demographics2 Info1: | 62.6% |
Demographics2 Title5: | Others |
Demographics2 Info5: | 2.1% |
Blank Name Sec1: | Police Precincts |
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Timezone1: | Eastern |
Utc Offset1: | −5 |
Timezone1 Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
Postal Code: | 11206, 11211, 11222 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 718, 347, 929, and 917 |
Footnotes: | [2] |
Brooklyn Community Board 1 is a New York City community board that encompasses the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. It is delimited by the Newtown Creek and Queens Borough line on the east, Flushing and Kent Avenue on the south, and by the East River on the west.[3]
Its current chairman is Dealice Fuller, and its district manager is Gerald A. Esposito.
As of the United States Census, 2000, the Community Board had a population of 160,338, up from 155,972 in 1990 and 142,942 in 1980. Of them (as of 2000), 77,040 (48.0%) were White non-Hispanic, 8,808 (5.5%) were African-American, 5,730 (3.57%) were Asian or Pacific Islander, 192 (0.1%) were American Indian or Native Alaskan, 3,635 (2.3%) were of some other race, 4,488 (2.8%) were of two or more races, and 60,445 (37.7%) were Hispanic.
46.7% of the population benefit from public assistance as of 2004, up from 32.9% in 2000.
The land area is 3167.6acres.