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Brooklyn Leading the City in Job Growth

NEW YORK CITY-A new study on job creation shows that the influx of retail stores and other businesses to the rapidly growing borough led it to surpass all the others.

By Rayna Katz | Updated on July 12, 2013

NEW YORK CITY-Given the explosion of retail, restaurants and both residential and commercial construction in Kings County, it may come as no surprise—but is still well worth noting—that Brooklyn is the borough with the greatest job growth.

Brooklyn companies created almost half of the city’s new jobs over the past 12 years, four times more than Manhattan and more than any other borough, according to a study by the Center for an Urban Future, released Thursday. The second and third place boroughs were Queens and the Bronx, the report notes.

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