Mapping the city’s poor and ‘near poor’ households
Brendan Cheney
Even as international real-estate business swoops down on Williamsburg to cash in on the influx of wealthy residents to the area, data released to Capital by the department of city planning show them living cheek by jowl with some of the city's poorest.
South of Flushing and Division avenues and Broadway, more than four in five residents either live below the poverty line or are considered "near poor," earning less than $46,749 for a family of four.
The planning commission provided Capital with a map, based on census data, showing the percentage of the city's population in each area living below the federal poverty line, as well as the percentage that is “near poor,” defined here as the population with incomes between 100 percent and 199 percent of the poverty level. (We've created and embedded an interactive version of the map here.)
Map at link. http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/09/8551393/mapping-citys-poor-and-near-poor-households?top-featured-1