6. Brownsville
We are continuing our list of neighborhoods to avoid in Brooklyn with Brownsville that used to be the murder capital of all of New York! USED to be… Okay, so the reputation kinda stuck around all these years and it is often still referred to as one of the absolute worst neighborhoods in Brooklyn, but today it is certainly not as bad of a neighborhood it used to be. It makes up the 73rd precinct with 86,468 residents. The crime rate is at a higher 1.3184/1,000 residents, but that number is substantially lower than what it was years ago, and seems to be lowering still each year! Out of those crimes, 14 were burglaries, 48 felony assaults, 22 grand larcenies, 9 grand larcenies of motor vehicles, 19 robberies, 1 rape and 1 murder. Okay, so there’s still some shootings going on, but at this rate, by the end of the year the number of shootings will be less than half of what it was even just 7 years ago; which has still come a long way from the types of crimes that used to go down in Brownsville. Much like the spontaneous murder of an NYPD Patrolman that occurred in 1971. The young officer was having an everyday conversation with a man outside of a bodega in Brownsville. Little did the officer know, it would be his last conversation. The man unexpectedly slashed the officer’s throat and was convicted of murder when the officer died shortly thereafter.
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