Which Brooklyn Neighborhoods Have the Heaviest Rent Burdens?
Who Else is Rent Burdened?
It’s almost a stripe running through the middle of the borough, from Coney Island to Bushwick (with a handle heading east into East New York). Bushwick ($1,176 median rent) and Coney ($902 median rent) have it the worst at a 36.3 percent rent burden; of these neighborhoods, Brownsville/Ocean Hill ($849 median rent) have the lowest burden, at 33.9 percent. Many Central and Eastern Brooklyn neighborhoods are those of course that were left out of the borough’s recent economic revitalization, instead becoming its victims. [photo]