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Brownsville is a residential neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The neighborhood is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bedford–Stuyvesant and Cypress Hills to the north; East New York to the east; Canarsie to the south; and East Flatbush to the west.
Brownsville is a residential neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The neighborhood is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bedford–Stuyvesant and Cypress Hills to the north; East New York to the east; Canarsie to the south; and East Flatbush to the west.
Jan 31, 2012 · B rownsville, located in east Brooklyn, has long been one of New York City’s most dangerous neighborhoods. But even as crime rates reached record lows in the borough in 2009, violence has...
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Apr 4, 2023 · April 04, 2023. Could differences in housing and public space explain differences in crime rates? For decades, Brownsville, Brooklyn, has suffered from some of New York City’s highest crime rates, while Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, has remained relatively low-crime.
May 21, 2024 · In 2022, Brownsville was the city’s 56th largest neighborhood by population out of 59 neighborhoods. It has the 14th largest proportion of nonwhite population, the 54th highest median income, and the 55th most expensive rents of the city’s 59 neighborhoods.
HISTORY. Brownsville was Jewish and politically radical from the 1880s to the 1950s, throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it elected Socialist and American Labor Party candidates to the state assembly . As early as the 1910s, the area had acquired a reputation as a vicious slum and breeding ground for crime.
Jan 15, 2020 · Brownsville is one of Brooklyn's eastern most neighborhoods, surrounded by Canarsie to its south, East New York to the east, Crown Heights and Bedford- Stuyvesant to its North and East Flatbush to its west.
