9. East Flatbush
Kicking off my list is New York’s 67th precinct known as East Flatbush, next on our list of neighborhoods to avoid in Brooklyn. Just glancing at the NYPD Crime Map, East Flatbush doesn’t seem like it has any more or less crime than most of Brooklyn, but from what locals and tourists had to say about it—I had to take a closer look. And from what I found, East Flatbush used to be riddled with drugs and violence. Like all of New York, the total crime in East Flatbush has dramatically decreased since the early 90’s. However, while most Brooklyn neighborhoods are getting less and less violent as the years go on this area may not be doing the same.
If you compare the rate at which these violent crimes occurred in the beginning of this year as opposed to that of the same time frame (January 1st – 31st) from 2016, you will find that the crime rate has, in fact, increased from 1.1658 crimes per 1000 residents to 1.1852. These crimes include 22 burglaries, 51 felony assaults, 64 grand larcenies, 6 grand larcenies of motor vehicles, 40 robberies and one murder totaling in a whopping 184 crimes in January of 2017, alone! While that seems like a high number (well, it is…) we must also take into consideration that East Flatbush has a larger population of 155,252—which is double the population of some of the neighborhoods on this list, however, the crime rate isn’t even close to double the crime in other neighborhoods.
