Brownsville
Covering one square mile in eastern Brooklyn, Brownsville gained a reputation as a slum in the early 1900s with notorious ties to the Jewish Mafia. As an African American community replaced the Jewish population, violent crime has remained high as surrounding areas’ crime rates decrease –Brownsville is considered one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York City. Today, housing project towers and blocks of low-rise public housing buildings dominate Brownsville real estate. Large vacant lots are areas of hope –the city is considering programs to attract high-tech manufacturing to the neighborhood, potentially providing much needed jobs for the community.
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454 Bristol Street
On the web
about 8 weeks ago
Curbed NY: East NY/Canarsie/Brownsville
Mixed Signals: City's Oldest House To Get Incongruously Modern Addition
about 9 weeks ago
Curbed NY: East NY/Canarsie/Brownsville
Affordable Housing: The Architectural Method Behind Brownsville's The Hegeman
Market Snapshot
As of 10:28 PM, May 24 2013
Schools
PS 174 Dumont (K-8)JHS 292 Margaret S Douglas (6-8)
PS 13 Roberto Clemente (PK-5)
PS 268 Emma Lazarus (PK-5)
is 232 the Winthrop (6-8)
PS 219 Kennedy-king (PK-5)
PS 73 Thomas S. Boyland (PK-7)
is 271 John M Coleman (6-8)
PS 178 St.Clair Mckelway (K-6)
PS 332 Charles H Houston (K-8)
PS 155 Nicholas Herkimer (K-7)
is 55 Ocean Hill Brownsville (6-9)
PS 28 the Warren (PK-5)
PS 335 Granville T Woods (PK-5)
PS 45 Horace E Greene (K-5)
PS 290 Juan Morel Campos (K-5)
JHS 302 Rafael Cordero (6-8)
PS 7 Abraham Lincoln (K-4)
I S 171 Abraham Lincoln (5-8)
PS 298 Dr. Betty Shabazz (PK-8)
PS/is 323 (K-8)
is 392 (5-8)
PS 327 Dr. Rose B. English (K-6)
PS 189 Lincoln Terrace (K-8)
Middle School for the Arts (6)
PS 156 Waverly (K-6)
PS 284 Lew Wallace (PK-8)
PS 183 Daniel Chappie James (K-6)
PS 41 Francis White (K-8)
is 252 Arthur S Sommers (6-8)
PS 184 Newport (K-6)
PS 165 Ida Posner (K-6)
PS 233 Langston Hughes (PK-5)
P.S. 66 (6-7)
PS 149 Danny Kaye (K-5)
PS 150 Christopher (K-SE)
PS 328 Phyllis Wheatley (K-8)
PS 190 Sheffield (K-5)
Essence School (6-8)
PS 213 New Lots (K-5)
JHS 166 George Gershwin (6-8)
PS 260 Breuckelen (PK-SE)
PS 306 Ethan Allen (K-5)
PS 244 Richard R. Green (PK-5)
is 285 Meyer Levin (6-8)
