Walking New York City’s Most Dangerous Hood, Brownsville Brooklyn!

Filmed March 5, 2022

The neighborhood is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bedford and Cypress Hills to the north; East New York to the east; Canarsie to the south; and East Flatbush to the west.

Brownsville was first used by the Dutch for farming, as well as manufacturing stone slabs and other things used to construct buildings. Development started in the early 1880s by William Suydam. But somehow he failed to pay the mortgage and as a result Charles S. Brown later won the land in an auction and built more houses; by 1883, the community was already being called Brown’s Village, a name that eventually became Brownsville.

Through the 1880s, Brownsville was used as a dumping ground. Fumes from the glue factories along Jamaica Bay would usually blow upwind into Brownsville. This place was inconveniently far enough from Manhattan that the wealthy refused to move to Brownsville, but the land was cheap enough that tenements could be built for the poor there!

Brownsville was predominantly Jewish from the 1880s until the 1950s. The vast majority of Brownsville residents were born outside the United States; in 1910, 66% of the population were firstgeneration immigrants, and 80% of these immigrants were from Russia. By 1920, over 80,000 of the area's 100,000 inhabitants were Russian Jews, and Brownsville had been nicknamed "Little Jerusalem".

In the 1930s it was considered the most densely populated district in all of Brooklyn. Brownsville was also considered to have the highest density of Jews of any place in the United States through the 1950s.

Let’s talk about the crime:

In the 1930s, Brownsville become the birthplace of Murder, Inc. contracted to kill between 400 and 1,000 people through the 1940s. The organizations' criminal businesses also extended to nearby neighborhoods of Ocean Hill and East New York. The members mainly consisted of Jewish and Italian Americans because during that time were mainly populated by Jewish and Italian people!

At that time also African Americans had begun moving into Brooklyn in large numbers and Most of the new residents were poor and socially disadvantaged, who were mostly migrants from the Jim Crowera South where they were racially discriminated against.  In 1940, black residents made up 6% of Brownsville's population. By 1950, there was double the number of blacks, most of whom occupied the neighborhood's most undesirable housing.  At the same time, new immigration quotas had reduced the number of Russian Jews who were able to immigrate to the United States.

The neighborhood was racially segregated and African Americans were banned from some public places where Jews were allowed, and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) generally behaved more harshly toward blacks than toward Jews.

The breaking point for the area's Jewish population came about in the 1950s when the New York City Housing Authority decided to build more new public housing. The Jewish population quickly moved out and Brownsville become a hub for black and Latino residents.

So if we see the history then Brownsville then the crime is not new here.

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