Since the late 20th century, Brownsville Brooklyn has consistently held one of the highest poverty and crime rates of any neighborhood in New York City.
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27 Facts About Brownsville Brooklyn
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Brownsville Brooklyn was predominantly Jewish from the 1880s until the 1950s.
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In 1887, businessman Elias Kaplan showed the first Jewish residents around Brownsville Brooklyn, painting the area as favorable compared to the Lower East Side, which he described as a place where one could not get away from the holds of labor unions.
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Brownsville Brooklyn was considered to have the highest density of Jews of any place in the United States through the 1950s.
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Brownsville Brooklyn was a place for radical political causes during this time.
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At one point in the 1943 published book, New York City Market Analysis, it had described Brownsville Brooklyn as having a variety of small industry unlike Lower East Side.
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Finally, although both blacks and Jews living in Brownsville Brooklyn had been subject to ethnic discrimination, the situation for blacks was worse, as they were banned from some public places where Jews were allowed, and the New York City Police Department generally behaved more harshly toward blacks than toward Jews.
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The newly majority-black Brownsville Brooklyn neighborhood had few community institutions or economic opportunities.
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Brownsville Brooklyn began experiencing large-scale rioting and social disorder around this time.
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In May 1971, the mostly black residents of Brownsville Brooklyn objected to reductions in Medicaid, welfare funds, and drug prevention programs in a peaceful protest that soon turned violent.
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The overall average income in Brownsville is lower than that of the rest of Brooklyn and the rest of New York City.
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Brownsville Brooklyn had not seen a similar revitalization because, unlike Pico-Union, it had not been surrounded by gentrified neighborhoods; did not have desirable housing; and was not a historic district or an area of other significance.
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Brownsville Brooklyn is still majority African-American and Latino, with exactly two Jewish-owned businesses in Brownsville Brooklyn in 2012.
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Brownsville Brooklyn is dominated by public housing developments of various types, mostly in a small area bounded by Powell Street and Rockaway, Livonia, and Sutter Avenues that is composed of multiple inward-facing developments located on six superblocks.
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Brownsville Brooklyn has consistently been considered the murder capital of New York City, with the 73rd Precinct ranking 69th safest out of 69 city precincts for per-capita crime in 2009.
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Crime rates in Brownsville Brooklyn had declined in the same manner that they had elsewhere in the city, but the declines were not as dramatic as in other areas of the city, with 72 people shot and 15 killed in Brownsville Brooklyn in 2013.
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Brownsville Brooklyn was so dangerous that one UPS driver, robbed at gunpoint, needed an armed security guard to accompany him while delivering packages to houses in the neighborhood.
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Brownsville Brooklyn has its own recreation facility with indoor swimming pools, outdoor athletic fields, and a playground.
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Brownsville Brooklyn is a heavily Democratic area; in the 2012 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama "won what was very close to a unanimous vote" in the neighborhood.
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Brownsville Brooklyn is located in New York's 41st City Council district, represented by Democrat Darlene Mealy.
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Brownsville Brooklyn had very few Republican primary voters: just 40 Brownsville Brooklyn voters cast ballots in the 2016 Republican primary.
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Brownsville Brooklyn suffers from major health disparities in comparison to the rest of New York City.
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Brownsville Brooklyn has a high population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive healthcare through Medicaid.
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Brownsville Brooklyn generally has a lower ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018.
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The percentage of Brownsville Brooklyn students excelling in reading and math has been increasing, with reading achievement rising from 26 percent in 2000 to 31 percent in 2011, and math achievement rising from 20 percent to 38 percent within the same time period.
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The Brownsville Brooklyn branch is located on 61 Glenmore Avenue, near Watkins Street.
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The easternmost of these streets, East 98th Street, serves as the ending point for many main thoroughfares in central Brownsville Brooklyn, including Church Avenue, Kings Highway, and Sutter Avenues.
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