The Two Brooklyns

The economic divide in Brooklyn is wider than ever, says the Daily News. They say they “scoured Brooklyn for telling statistics about the extremes of grimness and glamor gripping the split-personality borough,” and one item is specifically about our neighborhood:

Community District 14 — that’s Ditmas Park, Midwood, Prospect Park South and nearby areas — has the highest high school graduation rate in Brooklyn; only 27.5% of its students are deemed college-ready.

They also speak to the director of the Center for an Urban Future, who points to neighboring Windsor Terrace and Kensington as “neighborhoods where rising real estate prices are displacing moderate-income residents.”

So how do things even out? Will they, or will the extremes only become more extreme? And where are some places where everyone meets in the middle?