New York – Brooklyn has become the trendiest destination for people relocating to New York City.
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Some 161,000 people moved to the Big Apple during the period of April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012, and an estimated 60,000 of them selected Brooklyn as the location of their new digs, according to a report in the New York Daily News (http://nydn.us/YajowN).
“Brooklyn is a hot place to be,” said Joseph Salvo, the director of the Population Division at the Department of City Planning. “There are less people leaving.”
Experts say that young couples, immigrants, babies and hipsters account for the borough’s population increase.
Approximately 57,000 new residents in Borough Park and Williamsburg were babies, most of whom were born to Orthodox Jewish families. South Williamsburg saw a 14.1% population increase between 2000 and 2010, boasting the “second highest population growth among large families of Hasidic Jews.”
The Brooklyn population boom is “something we haven’t seen in decades,” Salvo added.
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