Talk:Borough Park, Brooklyn
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[edit] An article about what?
This article is incredibly biased! Is it about Boro Park, or about Hasids? It doesn't even set the boundaries of the neighborhood, give a population estimate, a general history, or anything of interest. What is the article about???
[edit] Bobov 43rd Street
What is Bobov 43rd Street? I've never heard of it.
- There certainly is no Bobov 43rd Street, but there definitely is a Bobov 45th street.--Screwball23 talk 23:23, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Boring Photo
"A street covered with snow?" seriously, we can have some more interesting pictures than that. Something about the Satmar brothers' battle or a little more info on the ethnic history would be a real help. Maybe a picture of 13th Avenue shopping or a picture of a supermarket or a synagogue or something.--Screwball23 talk 19:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Protests or Riots?
Seriously, bonfires and attacks on police officers? Burning a police vehicle? That is a riot, plain and simple. Mr. Schick himself said it got out of hand, and called it a riot himself. It also should be remembered that there were previous "protests" like this in the past.--Screwball23 talk 00:03, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- The NY times called it a protest. --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 00:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- See the news reports there is no riot there http://ondemand1.cv.net/news12/DK0405RT.asx http://real.ny1.com:8080/ramgen/real4/001657D8_060404_232714hi.rm --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 00:16, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
"The wild behavior of the crowd was condemned by all Jewish community leaders and in the local Jewish newspapers." -- Does anyone know whether the abusive behavior of the police officer was condemned by any civil service leaders or in the local law enforcement bulletins? Lone wanderer 21:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- Well, the answer to that is a yes and no. The news reports had mixed responses to the riot. First, the New York Police Department did investigate the actions of the involved officers (See: Lowe, Herbert, Parascandola, Rocco. "Anger over melee: Police brass assure Borough Park leaders they will probe actions taken during face-off with irate Hasidim." Newsday. 04/06/06.) In that article, you will notice that the officers were accused of pushing the 90-year-old man against a vehicle and using hateful speech. The officers spent several hours with two local Jewish politicians (Felder and Simcha) to explain what happened. The next day, 4/7/06, Police Chief Esposito, who was in charge of his squad that day and had explained himself to both the politicians and the NYPD admitted to using profanity to the crowd, but did not admit saying the word "jews" in a derogatory way. Both Simcha and Felder were happy with what they got from him and accepted his apology, leading us to believe that he did not use antisemitic language, but only loud profanity.
- In that regard, he did apologize to the community. However, the NYPD did have a little more to say about this riot. In their opinion, there was a "double standard" imposed on them by the community. The rioters blocked traffic, caused bonfires, and damaged a police vehicle, and only 3 arrests were made. This was not what would have been expected, especially from the NYPD that imprisoned hundreds of peaceful protestors during the 2004 Republican National Convention. In fact, the NYPD did not have to report and explain themselves to protest organizers after the incident; rather, they carried out many of the arrests without any repurcussions, for example, Chief Paragallo, who ordered a bystander to be arrested without reason. Nonetheless, it seemed that the police force was intimidated by the rioters and did not exercise the same strict measures that it normally would have. This would indicate that some people felt that the rioters were let off the hook easily.
- Nice question, though. You can decide for yourself.--Screwball23 talk 02:24, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] bobov dynasty schism
I called it the bobov dynasty schism because the article mostly about the schism, which happened in boro park, not the dynasty as a whole. the main article link is helpful, but the subsection was about the schism.--Screwball23 talk 14:39, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 250,000?
The article says there are 250,000 Jews in the neighborhood - is it supposed to be 25,000? 250,000 seems high for even a total population of any neighborhood. --Awiseman 08:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
- I think it's accurate. Boro Park is about 225-250 blocks in Brooklyn, and in Brooklyn, most houses are at least 2 family homes, plus apartments and so on. Brooklyn is about 2.5 million in population, and that would mean roughly 10% of Brooklyn is Jewish (it isn't clear whether the 250,000 are only in Boro park), which is not unreasonable considering the population density and growth rate.--Screwball23 talk 18:20, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
it is difficult to estimate the population. as screwball says, boro park is about 225 blocks in brooklyn and it seems reasonable that were are over 1000 people per block. 100 people per block would make this place a ghost town. according to the new york department of health borough park constitutes the zip codes 11204, 11236,11219, and 11230 (http://www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/cancer/registry/appendix/neighborhoods.htm). according the city-data.com the population of these zip codes in 2000 was 74,880, 74,611, 85,987, 88,933. this equals a total of 324,411. 250,000 out of 324,411 equals about 77% which seems pretty accurate considering how jewish boro park is--there are severals yeshivas and synagogues on every street. moreover, brooklyn is closer to 25-30% jewish as 10% represents the new york state average. also considering it is a widely circulated figure that boro park had approximately 80,000 jews in 1983, considering the birth rate of the ultra orthodox community a quarter million seems like a fair estimate.129.64.143.32 (talk) 01:38, 25 February 2008 (UTC)jonah
[edit] Slightly biased?
I'm only guessing, but is there a non-Jewish population in Borough Park as well? Ratzd'mishukribo 04:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yes there is. It is a minority, however.--Screwball23 talk 17:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Expansion Of The Neighborhood
The opening segment holds the following sentecne:"Moreover, neighboring Flatbush and Bensonhurst are beginning to shrink as Borough Park rapidly expands." What is this based on? The defenition of Borough Park is municipal at best. How can one neighborhood expand on behalf of its beighbor? 87.69.233.33 (talk) 12:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
boro park is basically wherever hasidic people live and they continue to live farther and farther out from what was traditionally boro park. so what was once considered bensonhurst is increasingly becoming an extension of bp 129.64.143.32 (talk) 01:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)jonah
