Brooklyn Community Board 4
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| name = Brooklyn Community District 4
| settlement_type = Community District
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| parts = Bushwick
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| leader_title = Chair
| leader_name = Robert Camacho
| leader_title1 = District Manager
| leader_name1 = Celestina León
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| area_total_sq_mi = 2.0
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| population_as_of = 2010
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| population_total = 112,634
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| demographics_type2 = Ethnicity
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| demographics2_title1 = African-American
| demographics2_info1 = 18.9%
| demographics2_title2 = Asian
| demographics2_info2 = 5.3%
| demographics2_title3 = Hispanic and Latino Americans
| demographics2_info3 = 56.9%
| demographics2_title4 = White
| demographics2_info4 = 17.1%
| demographics2_title5 = Others
| demographics2_info5 = 1.6%
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| timezone1 = Eastern
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| postal_code = 11206, 11207, 11221, and 11237
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| area_code = 718, 347, 929, and 917
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| website = {{URL|https://www1.nyc.gov/site/Brooklyncb4/index.page}}
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Brooklyn Community Board 4 is a New York City community board that encompasses the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. Its boundaries currently extend from Flushing Avenue on the north, Broadway on the southwest, the border with Queens to the northeast, and the Cemetery of the Evergreens on the southeast.{{cite web | url=https://www.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb4/index.page | title=Brooklyn Community Board 4 }}
Its current Chairperson is Robert Camacho, and the District Manager is Celestina León. Born and raised in the Bushwick Community, Robert Camacho has been an advocate in the Bushwick Community for almost 30 years. {{Cite web|url=http://lifetech.org/contact-us/|title=Contact Us – Labor & Industry For Education|website=lifetech.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-25}}
As of the United States Census, 2000, the Community Board has a population of 104,358, up from 102,572 in 1990 and 92,497 in 1980.
Of them (as of 2000), 3,026 (2.9%) are White non Hispanic, 24,838 (23.8%) are African-American, 3,245 (3.1%) Asian or Pacific Islander, 300 (0.3%) American Indian or Native Alaskan, 787 (0.8%) of some other race, 2,020 (1.9%) of two or more race, 70,142 (67.2%) of Hispanic origins.
51.9% of the population benefit from public assistance as of 2004, up from 36.6% in 2000.
The land area is {{convert|1311.2|acre|km2}}.
References
External links
- [http://www.nyc.gov/brooklyncb4 Official site of the Community Board]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051001010631/http://nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/neighbor/neighl.shtml Brooklyn neighborhood map]
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