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“Because so much of the community was devastated by demolition for urban renewal, arson and abandonment beginning in the 1960s, many newcomers have not so much dislodged existing residents as succeeded them. In the 1970s alone, the black population of central Harlem declined by more than 30 percent.”

via As Population Shifts in Harlem, Blacks Lose Their Majority – NYTimes.com.

Interesting wiki statement regarding Gentrification: “Consequent to gentrification, the average income increases and average family size decreases…” (emphasis mine). At first I thought that Wikipedia is suggesting that wealthier families have smaller families — but, reading further, it seems the smaller family size might be due to the traditional “Gentrifier Types” — artists, gay men, singles.

2009 saw major cities across the U.S. make their transit, demographic and crime data available to the public so that hackers and tech geeks could do something meaningful with it

via NYC open data contest draws to a close Jan. 7.

My favorite is “Ayn Rand – Workaholics seeking validation”, if only because I went through my own little Ayn Rand phase. Reading Ayn Rand is like reading your favorite kick-ass comic book – Bad Guys® are bad and Good Guys® are good and there are no greys.

Readers by Author « Lauren Leto.

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