North Brooklyn Safer Than South Brooklyn?
That’s what the Daily News reports. The murder rate is increasing in Brooklyn as a whole, but in South Brooklyn (typically a safer area) it rose 31.4% this year, from 54 to 71. North Brooklyn had a 20% drop, on the other hand, with 23 fewer murders. South Brooklyn, of course, has incredibly diverse neighborhoods,…
That’s what the Daily News reports. The murder rate is increasing in Brooklyn as a whole, but in South Brooklyn (typically a safer area) it rose 31.4% this year, from 54 to 71. North Brooklyn had a 20% drop, on the other hand, with 23 fewer murders. South Brooklyn, of course, has incredibly diverse neighborhoods, from Bay Ridge Bensonhurst to Sunset Park to Crown Heights: each saw increases in murder. The winning neighborhood, if you want to call it that, is Brownsville, where 23 murders have occurred this year. North Brooklyn also saw price increases while South Brooklyn suffered price chops; this news will surely be added to brokers’ brochures.
Murder Rates Spike in Some Nabes, Fall in the North [NY Daily News]
Photo by matt coats.
Brooklyn North and Brooklyn South are indeed just NYPD administrative divisions. The fact that BK North is a bit smaller than BK South, geographically, is probably because crime historically has been greater there, meaning they need a denser allocation of police resources. So the fact that Brooklyn South now has “more crime” probably just means that the density of crime is getting closer to — but hasn’t surpassed — that of Brooklyn North. Make sense?
I will confess to the impulse toward gleeful What-like rantings at seeing Park Slope and Cobble Hill in the murder zone, and Bed Stuy–where I keep urging cash-strained friends in the whiter parts of town to move and being told they can’t because it’s not a safe place to raise kids–outside of it.
This link answered my question:
http://brooklyn.com/modules.php?name=Police
Lisa, with a cross-out, all is forgiven.
I believe that Eastern Parkway is the dividing line for police purposes. Everything on the north side is Brooklyn North and everything on the south side is Brooklyn South. Do we have any cops (or criminals) on here that can verify that?
I think the North and South here – are purely NYC Police Dept. divisions or groupings of their precincts for administration purposes. As in Brooklyn North and Brooklyn South. And do not relate to neighborhoods or neighborhood names past or present.
Can someone explain which neighborhoods are North and which are South Brooklyn? I always thought South Brooklyn just referred to Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill and Red Hook.
Is there a difference? Don’t Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge together make up the town of Twin Peaks?
i think you will never forgive me for mixing up bensonhurst with bay ridge, bayridgegirl.