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That area of the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood had long been seen by residents and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) as one of the city's most dangerous. [ 3 ] All the NYPD's available officers were on duty that night, most already on overtime; [ 2 ] some had even returned from distant vacations.
As of 2018, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are more common in Bedford–Stuyvesant than in other places citywide. In Bedford–Stuyvesant, there were 95 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 26.9 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).
The Harlem riot of 1964 was a race riot that occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964 in the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, United States.It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan in front of Powell's friends and about a dozen other witnesses.
A 26-year-old man stabbed to death outside the Brooklyn NYCHA building where he lived had wanted to move out because he had a “fear of something happening,” his mother said Thursday. Stephon ...
Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips - are a street gang based in Los Angeles, California, New York, and a "set" of the Crips street gang alliance
Floyd Washington, 43, has lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant since 1987. People who live near the famous Bed-Stuy fish pond said Washington is "the mayor of the block."
The original Dutch settlement of what is now Brooklyn consisted of six towns with clearly defined borders. These later became English settlements, and were consolidated over time until the entirety of Kings County was the unified City of Brooklyn.
As recently as 2013, CNN ranked Newark one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the United States. In rankings this year, however, from the real estate analytics website Neighborhood Scout, ...