Brooklyn Typology

• population: «4803»
• population density: «180.6» per acre
• housing density: «63.0» per acre
• main use: residential
• platted: «1839»
• built up: «1870» – «1944»
• neighborhood: Fort Greene

housing types

• primary: five story apartments
• secondary: single family attached
• tertiary: eight to ten story apartments
• quaternary: apartments above retail

field notes

Public housing and one block of private. Public is the Whitman Houses, built WW2 era. Six story and twelve story, take up three blocks. Irregularly shaped open space surrounds buildings. Retail on Myrtle. Private block has vacant lots, couple of solid six story apartments, two story wood frame cottages.

Visited April 6, 2005.

population data

Total population	4803
White	470	10.1%
Black or African American	3451	74.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native	33	0.7%
Asian	16	0.3%
Hispanic or Latino	1322	27.5%