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Census Estimates for 2011 Show Population Growth in New York - Sam Roberts via NYTimes.com ⇢

New York is growing faster than projected, a combination of increased immigration, higher birthrates, and decreased emigration.

Sam Roberts via NYTimes.com

New York City gained nearly 70,000 residents in the 15 months ended July 1, 2011, almost matching the growth of the 1990s, when an influx of foreigners set annual records, according to census estimates released on Wednesday.

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In the estimates by the Census Bureau for July 1, 2011, the biggest gains were recorded in Brooklyn and Queens. Brooklyn had gained nearly 28,000 people since April 1, 2010, and Queens had gained more than 17,000.

Those gains, combined with increases in every other borough, boosted the city’s population by 69,777, to 8,244,910.

Remember that Brooklyn is an area with growing numbers of Hispanic and Asian immigrants, Hasidic Jews, and the largest concentration of ‘artists’ in the history of the world.

Also keep in mind that they faster that humanity crams itself into cities, the better for the environment, as well as for human social innovation. So the increase in New York and other US cities is largely a move in the right direction (although the US southwest has a long term water problem).

5 April 2012 4 underpaidgenius Permalink
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Is The Yard, a New Coworking Space In Williamsburg, the General Assembly of Brooklyn? - Nitasha Tiku via Betabeat ⇢

Nitasha Tiku via Betabeat

“I certainly looked at GA when I was trying to find some office space, and certainly would consider it in the future, but I found it to be a bit…pretentious?” Mr. Root, who works out of the space, explained by email . “Unlike its Manhattan-based cousins, I’ve found people at The Yard to be just as talented but far more approachable. Maybe I’m just more comfortable with the Brooklyn vibe than the highly-caffeinated Apple-everything crowd in the city.”

“I don’t mean to be unfair to GA, they have accomplished something incredible,” he continued. “But The Yard struck me as more practical and comfortable.”

I guess it’s inevitable to make the comparison to General Assembly, but almost nothing is the same at the Yard: 100 offices, not open space, for example. And while Levy is having discussions with angels and VCs, the place wasn’t started and managed by them.

And I am — to say the least — ambivalent about the vibe at GA. I work out of Grind which has a totally different and more freelancer-oriented vibe, rather than a start-up dominated one.

13 February 2012 2 Permalink
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According to the Center for an Urban Future, “freelance businesses has been a faster growing part of the Brooklyn economy than employer-based businesses”. The BEDC reported that the number of creative self-employed persons in Brooklyn grew at five times the rate of Manhattan over the 2002-2005 period. Brooklyn now has 22,000 creative self-employed workers. More than 70% are independent artists, writers, photogrpahers, jewewly makers, designers - making Brooklyn’s “creative crescent”, a cluster of waterfront neighborhoods stretching from Greenpoint in the north to Red Hook in the south, the largest concentration of artists in the history of the world.

Anthony Townsend, Art as Personal Business in the City: Brooklyn’s Creative Freelance Economy via IFTF’s Future Now

Source: future.iftf.org

26 December 2011 38 Permalink
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