Windsor Terrace Has Some Of Brooklyn's Highest Poverty Rankings

WINDSOR TERRACE, BROOKLYN — Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park have among the highest poverty rates in the borough, according to a new government report.

The Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity's annual poverty report, released Monday, shows that Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park had a poverty rate of 27.9 in 2017, the third highest level in Brooklyn.

Only Brownsville, with 29.4 percent, and East New York, with 28.7 percent, ranked higher for the percentage of residents living in poverty, which the report defines as a family of four with an income less than $33,562.

Windsor Terrace's southern neighbors did not fare much better. Approximately 27.2 percent of Kensington and Borough Park were marked as living in poverty.

As a comparison, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook residents — three neighborhoods with the lowest poverty rankings — had just 9.6 percent, Brooklyn Heights and Fort Greene had 11 percent and Canarsie came in third with 14.6 percent.

The citywide average poverty rate was 19 percent — indicating nearly one in five New Yorkers was considered poor in 2017 — the lowest rate since the city's tracking started in 2005, de Blasio's office said.

"The good news in this annual report is that poverty has steadily decreased," wrote Matthew Klein, the executive director of the Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity.

"The data also serve as a reminder, however, that many New Yorkers continue to live in poverty and near poverty."

Patch editor Noah Manskar contributed to this report.