Brooklyn Typology

• population: «2711»
• population density: «89.6» per acre
• housing density: «35.6» per acre
• main use: residential
• platted: «1900»
• built up: «1940» – «1945»
• neighborhood: Sheepshead Bay

housing types

• primary: six to seven story apartments
• secondary: industrial

field notes

Public housing, six story apartments arranged around fenced-off lawns. Very diverse. Beautiful steam plant, rest residential. Streets vacated, Avenue W widened by the project.

Visited July 2, 2005.

population data

Total population	2711
White	1008	38.9%
Black or African American	1314	50.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native	10	0.4%
Asian	72	2.8%
Hispanic or Latino	633	23.4%