Brooklyn Typology

• population: «529»
• population density: «28.1» per acre
• housing density: «11.1» per acre
• main use: industrial
• platted: «1839»
• built up: «1870» – «1890»
• neighborhood: Crown Heights

housing types

• primary: two to four flats
• secondary: industrial
• tertiary: vacant lots
• quaternary: apartments above retail

field notes

Mostly industrial zone. Residential on north-south streets, warehouses, junkyards on east-west streets. Lots of auto-related business: tires, carwash, gas station. Several large blocks of 4-story apartments with first-floor retail on Classon. Smaller, 2-story residential on Franklin. Some housing on east-west streets: Dean, Bergen, more-so on St. Marks. An el line (S shuttle) runs through.

Visited February 6, 2005.

population data

Total population	529
White	45	9.0%
Black or African American	331	66.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native	7	1.4%
Asian	11	2.2%
Hispanic or Latino	192	36.3%