There’s just no stopping fast pace of Downtown Brooklyn growth
The renaissance of Downtown Brooklyn seems like a unstoppable explosion, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli suggested on Thursday.
Consider these statistics, which he presented to an enthusiastic audience at the BAM Fisher Building:
• Total private-sector jobs in greater Downtown grew by 18.3 percent from 2003 to 2010, he said — far higher than the growth rate in the rest of Brooklyn (11.4 percent) and more than three times the rest of the city (5.4 percent).