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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]
Brooklyn Camorra (1885-1918) Bugs and Meyer Mob (1920s-1930s) Charlton Street Gang (1860s) Cherry Hill Gang (1890s- early 1900s) Chichesters (1820s-1860s) Cosa Nostra DeMeo Crew (1960s-1983) Gallo Crew (1950s-1972) Morello family (1890s-1931) - Predecessor to what would become the Genovese family; Tanglewood Boys (1990s) Crazy Butch Gang (1890s ...
Downtown Brooklyn. Bridge Plaza/RAMBO; DUMBO. Fulton Ferry; Fort Greene; Prospect Heights. Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards; Vinegar Hill; South Brooklyn – takes its name from the geographical position of the original town of Brooklyn, which today includes the neighborhoods listed above under the heading "northwestern Brooklyn." It is not located ...
The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system.
East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt and the Queens borough line to the north; the Queens borough line to the east; Jamaica Bay to the south, and the Bay Ridge Branch railroad tracks and Van Sinderen Avenue to the ...
The Bedford-Atlantic Shelter is known as Brooklyn's most dangerous shelter and one of the most dangerous in the New York City shelter system. [29] Since the 1980s, it had received a reputation for tolerating use of illegal drugs. [35]
The Greenpoint oil spill is one of the largest oil spills ever recorded in the United States.Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, between 17 and 30 million US gallons (64,000 and 114,000 m 3) of oil and petroleum products have leaked into the soil from crude oil processing facilities over a period of several decades. [1]
Park Slope is a neighborhood in South Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once known as South Brooklyn.Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south.