2. East New York
This is a popular neighborhood in which even the locals tend to try to avoid. Although with 183,328 residents calling it home, it’s a rather large neighborhood to try to avoid! Unfortunately, with all these people residing in the 75th precinct, some of them are the victims of or choosing to commit one of the seven major felony crimes and boosting the large neighborhood’s to 1.4128 crimes/1,000 residents! Over the years, East New York has always seemed to have a bad reputation. Along with many of the 9 neighborhoods to avoid in Brooklyn, it’s always been a town that seems to struggle with poverty, which essentially brings these harsher crimes. And the numbers of these harsh crimes in East New York are pretty high! A whopping 259 crime total in just the past month, alone! Of these crimes, 32 were burglaries, freaking 69 felony assaults, an insane 75 grand larcenies, 20 grand larcenies of motor vehicles, 55 robberies—55!—and a tragic eight rapes! These numbers are enough to scare me out of ever wanting to go there! What’s even scarier is the massacre that took place in East New York back in 1984 where a drug user barged into his dealer’s apartment and ended up killing 10 people! The story doesn’t end there; of those 10 people, eight of them were children and one was the dealer’s girlfriend who was also pregnant! Just goes to show the sorts of crimes these poorer neighborhoods have to endure.
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