Brooklyn Community Board 8 is a local governmental body in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that encompasses the neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. It is delimited by Flatbush Avenue on the west, Atlantic Avenue on the north, Ralph Avenue on the east, as well as by New York Avenue, Rochester Avenue and Eastern Parkway on the south.
Its current chairman is Robert Mattews, and its district manager Doris Alexander.
As of the United States Census, 2000, the Community Board has a population of 96,076, down from 96,400 in 1990 but up from 88,795 in 1980.
Of them (as of 2000), 6,536 (6.8%) are White non Hispanic, 74,942 (78.0%) are African-American, 1,591 (1.7%) Asian or Pacific Islander, 196 (0.2%) American Indian or Native Alaskan, 407 (0.4%) of some other race, 2,392 (2.5%) of two or more race, 10,012 (10.4%) of Hispanic origins.
38.8% of the population benefit from public assistance as of 2004, up from 26.9% in 2000. The land area is 1,049.3 acres (4.246 km2).
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