I was interviewed by two reporters for the New York Daily News about US Census reports on population changes in Brooklyn between 2000 and 2006. They did a good job on the data and quoted another Brooklyn College colleague, David Bloomfield and me. I thought they were worth noting here. You can cut and paste the links below. [I've created the links -- TS.] The students in my Graduate Sociology Seminar have been exploring these population changes by looking at Census Tract data and then going out on the street and photographing to see how the data conforms with the visual reality "in the hood." We hope to post some of their reports on line next semester.

"Youth movement fires Brooklyn boro gentrification"

BY ERIN DURKIN, JEFF WILKINS AND JOTHAM SEDERSTROM 
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, December 16th 2008

Check out the big brain on Brooklyn.
The borough’s high school and college graduation rates made a big leap since 2000 — and so did its wealth and number of people employed, according to new U.S. Census Bureau numbers released last week.
Those were three trends revealed in figures, compiled from 2005 through 2007, that proved what many had already known: Brooklyn was experiencing a renaissance.
“It’s not a surprise because it’s been visible on the streets,” said Brooklyn College sociology professor Jerry Krase.

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"A popular destination for Africans"

BY JEFF WILKINS 
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Monday, December 15th 2008

More and more people are migrating from the world's second-biggest continent to the city's most populous borough.
Brooklyn residents from Africa more than doubled from 2001 to 2007, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Almost 76,000 Brooklynites claimed African heritage in 2007, up from 36,832 in 2001.
"Right now, parts of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the west, are suffering from instability," said Brooklyn College sociology professor Jerry Krase. "People who have the resources... are leaving."