#Brownsville brooklyn code#

The new administration laid off several teachers in violation of union contract rules. The Board of Education had experimented with giving the people of the neighborhood control over the school. In 1968 Brownsville was the setting of a protracted and highly contentious teacher strike. In September 1967, a riot occurred following the death of a boy. The stores on the avenues are empty and the streets are lined with deserted apartment houses or buildings that have empty apartments on every floor. As Jimmy Breslin wrote in 1968, Brownsville reminded him of Berlin after the war block after block of burned-out shells of houses, streets littered with decaying automobile hulks. Half of all families in the district lived on less than $5,000 a year. It was a predominantly Jewish neighborhood until the 1960s, when its population had become largely African-American and Brownsville’s unemployment rate was 17 percent. It has been known throughout the years for its criminal gangs and in the 30s and 40s achieved notoriety as the birthplace of Murder, Inc.

Īs early as the 1910s, the area had acquired a reputation as a vicious slum and breeding ground for crime. It is part of Brooklyn Community Board 16.īrownsville was Jewish and politically radical from the 1880s to the 1950s, throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it elected Socialist and American Labor Party candidates to the state assembly. New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) property in the area is patrolled by P.S.A. The area is patrolled by the 73rd Precinct located at 1470 East New York Avenue. Brownsville is bordered by East New York Avenue to the north (on the Bedford-Stuyvesant border), Remsen Avenue to the west (Flatbush) and the freight rail Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road to the south (adjacent to the neighborhood of Canarsie) & to the east (East New York).

#Brownsville brooklyn code#

The total land area is one square mile, and the ZIP code for the neighborhood is 11212. Brownsville is a residential neighborhood located in eastern Brooklyn, New York.