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diagnosed in this age group in 2004, and 2.8% (8) of HIV cases. Of 20-29 year olds, they were 7.1%
(400) of the PLWHA in Central Brooklyn at the end of 2004, 12.7% (40) of the AIDS Cases in 2004
alone, and 32.3% (91) of the HIV diagnoses in 2004 alone. The majority of PLWHA 60.5% (3,389) at
the end of 2004 were 30-49 and an additional 28.8% (1,610) were 50 and over. Of PLWA diagnoses in
2004 alone, 61.9% (195) were 30-49 and 23.5% (74) were 50 and over. Of HIV cases diagnosed in
2004, 56.8% (160) were 30-49, and 18.8% (53) were 50 and over. [1 Table 3.8.3]
TUBERCULOSIS (TB) While TB has steadily declined in NYC since 1992, there was a slight rise in
2003 (5%) with a rate of 14.2 per 100,000. However there was a 9% drop from 2003 to 2004
though the 13 per 100,000 rate remains more than twice the national rate of 4.9. Sixty-eight
percent of the cases were diagnosed in individuals born outside of the US. With 314 cases and a
rate of 12.7 (down from 14.7 in 2003) Brooklyn had 30.3% of NYC’s total cases. (Queens had a
tad more with 30.9%). Of the 42 UHF Neighborhoods in NYC, Central Brooklyn with 45 cases
had an age-adjusted case rate of 14.2 ranking 15th in NYC. [7]
IMMIGRANTS Brooklyn’s 931,800 immigrants reflected in the 2000 Census were heavily from the
non-Hispanic Caribbean (32%) and Europe (26%). Latin Americans and Asians each accounted for
one-fifth of the immigrant population, and Africans were 3%. China was the largest source of
immigrants to Brooklyn and the only Asian country with a substantial presence in the borough
numbering 86,100 (9%), followed by Jamaicans (8%); Haitians (7%); and Dominicans, Ukrainians,
Trinidadians and Tabagonians, and Russians (each with 6%).
Foreign Born in Central Brooklyn 2000 Census
Zip
code
Communities [13]
Population
[14]
%
Foreign
Born
%
Countries with %
11212
Brownsville/
NE Flatbush
85,232
26.7%
27,511
30.3%
Jamaica 25.7%, Trinidad & Tobago. 11.7%, Guyana 11.5%,
Haiti 7.4%, Barbados, 6.2%, Dominican Republic 4.1%,
Panama 2.6%, Honduras 1.9%, Nigeria 1.6%
11233
Ocean Hill/Bedford-
Stuyvesant/Browns-
ville
62,568
19.6%
11,252
12.4%
Trinidad & Tobago 13.5%, Jamaica 12.8%, Guyana 10.4%,
Barbados 10%, Dominican Republic 6.1%, Panama 4.4% ,
Haiti 3.6%, Nigeria 2.9%, Cuba 1.4%
11216
Bedford-
Stuyvesant/N
Crown Heights
56,635
17.8%
16,191
17.8%
Trinidad & Tobago, 19.3%, Guyana 11.8%, Jamaica 11.6%,
Barbados 10.6%, Haiti 3.7%, Panama 3.5%, Dominican
Republic 2.8%, Bangladesh 2.2%, Nigeria 1.5%
11213
N Crown
Heights/Weeksville/
Crown Heights
65,320
20.5%
23,853
26.3%
Trinidad & Tobago 16.3%, Jamaica 16.3%, Haiti 10.4%,
Guyana 9.2%, Barbados 5.5%, Dominican Republic 4.2%,
Panama 4.1%, Russia 1.7%, Israel 1.4%
11238
Prospect Heights,
Fort Greene,
Clinton Hill,
Bedford-Stuyvesant
49,118
15.4%
11,999
13.2%
Jamaica 12.2%, Trinidad & Tobago 11.1%, Guyana 7.1%,
Barbados 5.6%, Haiti 5.2%, Dominican Republic 5.2%,
China 4.0%, Panama 3.5%, United Kingdom 3%, Mexico
2.8%
Central Brooklyn
318,873
100.0%
90,806
28.5%
Brooklyn
2,465,326
Figure 6: The Newest New Yorkers 2000 [13]
Central Brooklyn, as defined by UHF
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, strongly reflects the Caribbean with 17.3% (15,729) of the
foreign born, followed by Trinidad and Tobago with 14.4% (13,087), Guyana 10.2%, Barbados 7.2%
5
The data used here is from The Newest New Yorkers 2000 which defines the communities differently than UHF. We have also used the population by
zip code which they provide which differs from that provided by DOHMH.