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Brownsville suffers from major health disparities in comparison to the rest of New York City. In 2006, Brownsville had the highest infant mortality rate in New York City (12.5 per 1,000 births), twice the overall city rate (5.9 per 1,000 births). [113]
Low Houses, or Seth Low Projects, is a public housing complex built and operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), located in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The development is named after Seth Low (1850–1916), a former city mayor who attacked the existence of unsanitary tenements. Low Houses has four buildings between 17 and 18 stories ...
In 2010, the health department began a program to document health disparities. The first report focused on disparities in life expectancy and death, and stated that death rates were 30% higher in the poorest New York City neighborhoods than the wealthiest. [11]
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Moore, Deborah Dash (2003). "Review of The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis; Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto". American Jewish History. 91 (1): 176– 180. ISSN 0164-0178. JSTOR 23887341. Murphy, Marjorie (2004). "Reviews of Books".
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Brookdale is one of Brooklyn's largest voluntary nonprofit teaching hospitals, a regional tertiary care center, and is a level II trauma center.It provides 24-hour emergency services and long-term specialty care, has outpatient programs, and is one of 14 New York State DOH designated Stroke Centers in Brooklyn. [6]
Marcus Garvey Village, also known as Marcus Garvey Apartments, is a 625-unit affordable housing development located in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn.The complex was developed by the New York State Urban Development Corporation and designed by British architect Kenneth Frampton (then at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies) in 1973 and completed in 1976. [1]