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On Dec. 22, a homeless woman, Debrina Kawam, was fatally set on fire while sleeping on an F train in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The suspected killer has been charged with first-degree murder and arson.
Neighborhoods that were once considered dangerous are now much safer. Violent crime in the city has dropped by three quarters in the twelve years ending in 2005 with the murder rate at its lowest then level since 1963 with 539 murders that year, for a murder rate of 6.58 per 100,000 people, compared to 2,245 murders in 1990. [202]
1883 Brooklyn Bridge stampede: mass unrest 12 [116] 2003 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash: maritime 11 [117] 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing: terrorism 11 [118] 1970 Trans International Airlines Flight 863: aircraft 11 [119] 1854 W. T. Jennings fire: fire 11 [92]: 29 1984 Palm Sunday massacre: homicide 10 [120] 1956 Bush Terminal explosion ...
The area is a growing hub for education. In 2017, New York University announced that it would invest over $500 million to renovate and expand the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and its surrounding Downtown Brooklyn-based campus. [3] Downtown Brooklyn is part of Brooklyn Community District 2 and its primary ZIP Codes are 11201 and 11217. [1]
The alleged serial groper dubbed the “Park Slope Prowler” for his late-night assaults on women around Brooklyn’s Prospect Park was captured Thursday afternoon, police said.. William Nuesi ...
NEW YORK -- A grand jury has indicted the man accused of fatally setting a woman on fire a New York City subway train, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced. Investigators said ...
New York City has seen a cycle of modest boom and a bust in the 1980s, a major boom in the 1990s, and mixed prospects since then. This period has seen severe racial tension, a dramatic spike and fall of crime rates, and a major influx of immigrants growing the city's population past the eight million mark.
The demographics of Brooklyn reveal a very diverse borough of New York City and a melting pot for many cultures, like the city itself. Since 2010, the population of Brooklyn was estimated by the Census Bureau to have increased 3.5% to 2,592,149 as of 2013, representing 30.8% of New York City's population, 33.5% of Long Island's population, and 13.2% of New York State's population.