Brooklyn Community Board 4 is a New York City community board that encompasses the Brooklyn neighborhood of

Bushwick Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg to the northwest; East New York and the cemeteries of Highland Par ...

. It is delimited by

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on the west, Flushing Avenue on the north, the

Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

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. As of the

United States Census, 2000 The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 ce ...

, 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 African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "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 .

References

External links

Official site of the Community BoardBrooklyn neighborhood map
Community boards of Brooklyn Bushwick, Brooklyn {{NYC-stub