Talk:Borough Park, Brooklyn

message: What is Bobov 43rd Street? I've never heard of it.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.21.1.158 (talk) 12/Sep/05
:There certainly is no Bobov 43rd Street, but there definitely is a Bobov 45th street.--Screwball23 talk 23:23, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bobov 43rd Street

message: "A street covered with snow?" seriously, we can have some more interesting pictures than that. Something about the Satmar brothers' battle or a little more info on the ethnic history would be a real help. Maybe a picture of 13th Avenue shopping or a picture of a supermarket or a synagogue or something.--Screwball23 talk 19:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Boring Photo

message: I called it the bobov dynasty schism because the article mostly about the schism, which happened in boro park, not the dynasty as a whole. the main article link is helpful, but the subsection was about the schism.--Screwball23 talk 14:39, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  bobov dynasty schism 

message: The article says there are 250,000 Jews in the neighborhood - is it supposed to be 25,000? 250,000 seems high for even a total population of any neighborhood. --Awiseman 08:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's accurate. Boro Park is about 225-250 blocks in Brooklyn, and in Brooklyn, most houses are at least 2 family homes, plus apartments and so on. Brooklyn is about 2.5 million in population, and that would mean roughly 10% of Brooklyn is Jewish (it isn't clear whether the 250,000 are only in Boro park), which is not unreasonable considering the population density and growth rate.--Screwball23 talk 18:20, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  250,000? 

message: I'm only guessing, but is there a non-Jewish population in Borough Park as well?
Ratzd'mishukribo 04:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes there is. It is a minority, however.--Screwball23 talk 17:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slightly biased? 

message: The opening segment holds the following sentecne:"Moreover, neighboring Flatbush and Bensonhurst are beginning to shrink as Borough Park rapidly expands." What is this based on? The defenition of Borough Park is municipal at best. How can one neighborhood expand on behalf of its beighbor? 87.69.233.33 (talk) 12:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: is there no answer? ברי"א (talk) 19:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Expansion Of The Neighborhood 

message: With an estimated Jewish population that may be as high as 250,000 Jews (though estimates vary drastically and this number is bound to increase in the coming years), which includes many Hasidic and Hareidi Jews,[1] Borough Park has largest concentrations of Jewish people in the United States and is among the most Orthodox neighborhoods in the world.
The sentence was weakened from my original edit because some dipshit decided to shorten the statement. It reads: "With an estimated population that may be as high as ..., borough park has one of the largest concentrations of Jewish people in the US and is among the most Orthodox..."
Someone had shortened it; hopefully, it will not happen again because it was grammatically incorrect.
--Screwball23 talk 12:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixed the sentence - see talk page 

message: I reverted a section concerning the Brooklyn Public Library in Borough Park. The information was not newsworthy, and was incredibly trivial, especially for a neighborhood article. Comments and suggestions welcomed on the talk page:
--Screwball23 talk 00:32, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I see it's gone, but having been born there and gone to school there for several years (in the Modern Orthodox sector; school no longer exists), the library was quite important. In particular, please understand that many people there intentionally do not have internet, and certainly do not have televisions. Whether they use the library I do not know. Ironically, in my youth it was one of the few libraries open on Saturday.Mzk1 (talk) 15:27, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert - Public Library 

message: Granted the neighborhood being about 90-95% jewish some one reading this article would get the impression that this neighborhood is exclusively jewish. There must be something to include about other ethnic groups in this neighborhood.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.202.74.202 (talk) 02:41, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Aren't random anti-semitic attacks wonderful? Having grown up in several neighborhoods of New York, I would say having trash on the streets is pretty ubiquitous.Mzk1 (talk) 05:51, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: As of the 2000 Census, the population of Borough Park was 85,987. The demographics were 71.4% White, 16.2% Asian, 11.9% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0%Black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 6.7% Some other race , 4.3% two or more races.
Firstly, the population of 85 thousand is helpful, but the percentages are out-of-place and far too trivial. Secondly, there are no clear references and no clear information making it clear that this is official info from the Census in the Borough Park neighborhood. Thirdly, and most importantly, even if the information is official, the article is supposed to be encyclopedic, and not written like some traveler's guide/real estate handbook.--Screwball23 talk 02:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population- Census figures 

message: Boro is an excepted alternate spelling for borough in NYC.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.29.158.10 (talk) 16:04, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Is excepted an accepted alternate spelling for accepted? -- -- -- 22:25, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Boro" Misspelled? 

message: Please leave the issue of the eruv as is. Someone with a bias played around with the wording. Mytikkun (talk) 09:37, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The laws of modesty include avoiding physical contact. -- -- -- 21:12, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion and politics - Religious observances 

message: The education section makes no sense. Here we have a neighborhood with a religious school on just about every block in areas, and the entire section is about the government system? We could change the title, but then there is a notability issue.Mzk1 (talk) 05:54, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Why rename?  Add nicely written, well cited paragraph.  Not one naming individual religious schools, unless some are large or otherwise notable, but surely some newspaper must have mentioned the topic in a more general way.  Jim.henderson (talk) 00:50, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it is Undue Weight. How many people in the neighborhood go to those schools? Three on the religious schools, one on the public would make sense. But I don't have the sources to add to it. As it is, the section does not fit at all.Mzk1 (talk) 15:24, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

text: BTW, I assume a lot of them are notable, including the one I went to, now closed. It opens the first page of Alan Dershowitz's first book (he was one of our better failures); Dr. Auman, the Nobel prize winner, went there for a few years. There are also a lot of notable charities, some of which serve larger areas, but sources are not easy to get. One of the NYT articles has several paragraphs on that, but how do I cite that without plagiarism?Mzk1 (talk) 17:24, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: To the editor who reverted the title: Please quote the paragraph that describes (not mentions) the parochial schools. Every paragraph is primarily about the public schools.Mzk1 (talk) 18:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education section 

message: The opening part mentions children per family, but the reference, besides not directly being the one quoted, is for fertility per woman. Am I right in assuming that these are not the same thing? Would it perhaps not be better to cite the NYT article that says (approvingly!) that the fertility is about twice that of the city (or borough, I have to look again)?Mzk1 (talk) 17:26, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fertility 

message: The Borough of Brooklyn is the Borough of Brooklyn, but the place which includes zip code 11219 and parts of 11218 is known as Boro Park. 
Some outsiders do say Borough Park, but such long ago institutions as Hebrew Institute of Boro Park didn't ugh. Reporters who were 
based in West Berlin are no longer there. The New York Times has nearly 89 thousand articles with "Boro Park" vs. about seven thousand ugh (and 61 with both). Those who say the "g" in length may have the strength (another g) to say no, but, as a socialist put it, "the locals spell it Boro Park." Pi314m (talk) 21:36, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The "h" is gone from Williamsburgh, and peeking around for Peking leads to Beijing. Although banging one's head against a stone wall is senseless, digging a hole at the foot of the wall and dropping in the  "ugh" might work. Pi314m (talk) 03:43, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Boro Park, not Borough Park

message: Not mentioned in the article. AW (talk) 17:22, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is it called Borough Park? 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Borough Park, Brooklyn's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "auto":
From Yemenite Jews: A. Jamme, W.F., Sabaean and Ḥasaean Inscriptions from Saudi Arabia, Instituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente: Università di Roma, Rome 1966, p. 40
From Mitchell Silk: 
From Haredi Judaism: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 23:03, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Borough Park, Brooklyn]]