Commuters wait as the L-train arrives at the Bedford stop. A Brooklynite is 20 times more likely than the average American to take mass transit to get to work.
A new report paints the most detailed statistical picture ever of Brooklyn and its 18 community districts, and suggests residents today are less poor, better educated, paying more for housing and more likely to ride mass transit than in 2000.
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