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Why does everybody go based off of what a neighborhood looks like? That means nonthing, I'm talking about the actual numbers. Brownsville/East NY are 2 of the worst neighborhoods in the U.S HANDS DOWN. Detroit, Compton, Camden, Newark (really The whole Essex County), parts of Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta etc all are/have bad neighborhoods but I'm not going to sugar coat ANYTHING. Here are some facts/stats about Brownsville & East NY: (look them up yourself)
Brownsville
Population is about 85,000. It's 86% Black, 14% Latino, 4% White. Over half of the population is below the poverty line. Avergae Income is $20,839 (Lower than Detroit, New Orleans or East St. Louis). It has the highest concentration of Public Housing Projects in the U.S. Over half of the males have been incarcerated at some point in their lives. A great majority of inmates in New York jails are from Brownsville. Brownsville has New York City's highest crime rate. Brownsville has the highest rate of infant inmortality in New York City. Brownsville until 2004 was the only district in the city without a highschool. I mean, I'm not even going to go into East NY. It's pretty much the same. By the way, it's very hard to compare New York City to Detroit or New Orleans. You basically can't.
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Reason: Left out something.
Sorry,all the rest of you fellow New Yorkers, but this is one area where we can't come close to being number 1.
There are neighborhoods in other cities:Chicago,LA and St Louis, maybe even Newark, and these are just a few of them,that are far worse than anything , anywhere in Brooklyn or The Bronx today.
The absolute worst of all,without peer,is East St.Louis,Missouri.
Hate to tell you but I don't think we even have a neighborhood in the top 5.
I know that will be a big disappointment to a lot of you.
East St. Louis is not a neighborhood, it is a SUBURB of St. Louis. It's not even in Missouri.
And yet another C-D member who has no knowledge of what they speak.
I would have to say Trinidad,Washington D.C. At one point they had to put a police checkpoint in the neighborhood!!! Either that or the Mantua neighborhood in West Philly. Worst urban decay ive ever seen.
I agree. That checkpoint thing in the Trinidad neighborhood is very recent as well. I'm a firefighter in the Milwaukee area, but going through my background check right now to become a DC Firefighter. Engine 10 in DC(located in Trinidad) had received many rewards for being the busiest engine company in the world. Most busy engine companies are in the poorest and most dangerous areas of cities. The fire house is actually nicknamed, "The House of Pain". They run over 10,000 calls a year out of one fire house. House Of Pain E-10 T-13 DCFD
All of Essex County, really??????????
Yea, I mean Montclair is a slum, Essex Fells is hell on earth, Livingston might as well be in Iraq, Millburn is horrid...................... I think you get the point.
Please don't make such uninformed statements. It only makes you look bad.
Southwest Houston and parts of North Houston are pretty bad.
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) and so is E Baltimore, North of Hopkins around Clifton Park and Bmore cemetery 
