Brooklyn Typology

• population: «1040»
• population density: «91.8» per acre
• housing density: «31.9» per acre
• main use: residential
• platted: «1870»
• built up: «1890» – «1910»
• neighborhood: Brownsville

housing types

• primary: two to four flats
• secondary: four story apartments
• tertiary: single family attached
• quaternary: apartments above retail

field notes

Two story single family row houses, four story apartments and three story NYCHA apartments (with parking). Upper floors vacant on Pitkin. School on half of northern block. Relatively new (and ugly) two and three flats. Howard is quite wide, has median.

Visited May 17, 2005.

population data

Total population	1040
White	108	10.6%
Black or African American	819	80.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native	6	0.6%
Asian	4	0.4%
Hispanic or Latino	240	23.1%