Brooklyn Community Board 4

Brooklyn Community District 4
Community District
Country	United States
State	New York
City	New York City
Borough	Brooklyn
Neighborhoods	Bushwick
Government
• Chair	Robert Camacho
• District Manager	Celestina León
Area
• Total	2.0 sq mi (5 km2)
Population  (2010)
• Total	112,634
• Density	56,000/sq mi (22,000/km2)
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Ethnicity
• African-American	18.9%
• Asian	5.3%
• Hispanic and Latino Americans	56.9%
• White	17.1%
• Others	1.6%
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	11206, 11207, 11221, and 11237
Area code	718, 347, 929, and 917
Police Precincts	83rd (website)
Website	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. It is delimited by Broadway on the west, Flushing Avenue on the north, the Queens Borough line and Vermont Avenue on the east, as well as by Highland Avenue on the south.

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. ^[3]

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 1,311.2 acres (5.306 km²).

References[]

External links[]

• Official site of the Community Board
• Brooklyn neighborhood map

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