Metro

600-page book released giving hyper-local data on B’klyn neighborhoods

Brooklyn is now an open book – 600 pages worth – as residents now have a new comprehensive resource for finding key hyper-local data on their neighborhoods.

The “Brooklyn Neighborhood Report,” features easy–to-view graphs and other data for each community on topics like public safety, education, health and the economy.

“Too often, stats about Brooklyn get submerged in citywide stats that miss important local trends,” said Marilyn Gerber, president of Brooklyn Community Foundation, which prepared the report with the Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College.

“As we consider the data from across our distinct communities … we begin to indentify developments and disparities that confirm our progress, but also our challenges, and reveal the impact of new residents — not just former Manhattanites and the latest generation of creative young people, but an ever increasing number of immigrants from China, Mexico, Jamaica and Haiti.”

The report is can be viewed on the Center’s website at www.studybrooklyn.org under “What’s New” or at http://bit.ly/yjtYN8.