There are more of us. The population of Brownstone Brooklyn has increased by about 11,000 people since 2000, mostly because of new high rises in Downtown and DUMBO.

We’re richer, except when we’re poor. Average income has increased by about $9,000 since the last census but, as Mr. Holt notes, the area’s prevailing affluence “may actually be understated, due to the presence of large low-income housing projects in Red Hook, Gowanus and Fort Greene.”

Lots of us are single. Unlike the rest of Brooklyn and the City as a whole, more than half of the households in Brownstone Brooklyn are not family households.

We shop near home, except when we don’t. About 63% of our “consumer expenditures” in 2010 went to stores in the two districts. The remaining 37% was mostly for motor vehicles and parts, and for “general merchandise”.

When we eat out, we mostly stay local. ” [B]y a ratio of more than two to one, residents of Districts 2 and 6 tend to stay in their neighborhoods or nearby when they go out to eat.”

Check out Recession Art’s Bull and Bear Market this weekend, featuring affordable arts and crafts from local artists at The Invisible Dog- great for holiday gifts! There will also be a bake sale, face painting, a rock band competition, gingerbread decorating, and holiday gifts for the adults. The event takes place this Sunday, December 13, from 11 am to 8 pm at The Invisible Dog (51 Bergen Street). Admission to the Bull and Bear Market is free and donations are suggested for the various activities. Proceeds support Recession Art, an organization devoted to helping emerging artists show and sell their work while giving art lovers the opportunity to buy original work at reasonable prices.

“They said they needed to pull in $17,000 by week’s end and they were only pulling in $13,000,” said an employee at Bueno, who requested anonymity. “Now I’m back to square one, looking for a job on the holidays.”

Mamary has had a hand in creating at least 23 restaurants in the borough since his first Brooklyn venture, the Italian eatery Restaurant 101, opened in Bay Ridge two decades ago.

Sometimes he merely helped design and build the spaces; he sold his stake in others; and 11 of his restaurants have closed or were transformed into new ventures.

For now, he owns a stake in five restaurants: Gowanus Yacht Club, Zombie Hut and Black Mountain Wine House in Carroll Gardens, Café Enduro in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Pomme de Terre in Ditmas Park.

But his immediate future plans include moving his family from Ditmas Park to New Jersey, and pulling out of day-to-day operations in Brooklyn.

“I’m going to try, at this stage of my career, to just really build and design, and find the right person to run it and/or [take over],” Mamary said. “The days of me owning and operating are over.”

On a Thursday night at The Jakewalk, patrons say loyalty to Smith and Vine and Stinky Brooklyn was the main reason for them choosing The Jakewalk for a drink. “I know the quality of what we’re eating and drinking will be great here by buying their products at their stores,” say’s Sara, a 20-something living in the neighborhood.

Caroline, another local resident, told us that it’s the personal touches that attracted her. “When you get to know personalities and you know that somebody owns this shop and they’re doing one project here and one project there. It’s great! You want to check it out.”

“It was hard,” said Kyung Dong Oh, an immigrant from South Korea who opened the shop in 1984, and saw it become a beloved neighborhood fixture. “My store was not only a store, it was a meeting place.”

Twenty months later, the space on the corner of Court and Baltic Sts. still sits empty. [New landlord Salvatore Prestigiacomo- note NY Daily News printed the wrong name in its coverage] is still asking $6,500 for the space – and no one has bitten.

It’s one of several cases around the borough where landlords saw gold during boom times and shed longtime tenants by raising rents, only to see their storefronts sit empty as the economy turned sour.