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BROADWAY TRIANGLE DEMOGRAPHICS STUDY The Hasidic Apex 1 Crossroads of Three Neighborhoods VE I A N R G T L Y E A W D UNION AVE A O R B GREENPOINT/ TRACT HEYWARD ST WILLIAMSBURG E 509 H UNION AVE T F WALTON ST
BROADWAY TRIANGLE DEMOGRAPHICS STUDY
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT BUSHWICK GREENPOINT/ WILLIAMSBURG
F L U S H I N G A V E BROADWAY UNION AVE
VE F
T H E B R O A D W A Y T R I A N G L E
TRACT 509 WALTON ST MARCY AVE HEYWARD ST FLUSHING AVE UNION AVE BROADWAY
Crossroads of Three Neighborhoods
Three Very Difgerent Neighborhoods
But they all share two things: A loss in manufacturing jobs. A need for afgordable housing.
The Hasidic Population The Ghost The Black Population 65% Black 20% Hispanic 11% White , , 61% White 27% Hispanic 5% Black 65% Hispanic 20% Black 9% White The Hispanic Population
M A N U F A C T U R I N G W I L L I A M S B U R G B U S H W I C K B E D
T U Y
Source: 2010 US Census
Focus: Hasidic Population
With the initial Broadway Triangle proposal from HPD, black and Hispanic groups in Bed- Stuy and Bushwick sued the city, not only because they were not consulted, but because it was believed that the proposal was directly targeting the Hasidic population based on the large size of the apartments and low building heights. The city consulted only two community groups before developing a housing plan for the vacant city-owned lots within the Broadway Triangle: one serving senior citizens, and the other serving the Orthodox Jewish population.
Where is the Hasidic Population?
Of the 84,000 yiddish speakers in New York City, 95% of them are in Brooklyn. Tract 509 (the top of the Broadway Triangle) has an extremely high concentration of yiddish speakers.
1% 3% 18% 66%
Source: 2011 American Community Survey, 5 year estimates
New York City Brooklyn BK CD 1 Tract 509
Guardians of Jewish Homes
Mezuzahs are prayer scrolls placed in cases and affjxed to doorways to protect all who enter.
Where are mezuzahs in Tract 509?
Tract 509: Block Analysis
Institutional Residential Commercial Mixed Vacant Industrial Parking Transportation Open SpaceWALTON ST MARCY AVE H E Y W A R D S T BROADWAY UNION AVE
BUILDING FOOTPRINTS LAND USE AERIAL VIEW STREETSCAPE CORNICE ENTRANCE
Tract 509: Physical Elements by Block
Conclusions and Next Steps
The Hasidic community is tightly woven in Williamsburg due to a rich history, and established political activism and connections for housing issues. The mixing of the manufacturing past and the current families of Tract 509 can be seen distinctly through an analysis of various elements of each block. Some next considerations to further investigate this demographic would be to quantify ways in which the Hasidic population can be observed through Census