Crime & Safety
POLL: A Crime-Ridden Fort Greene?
A question for those lucky enough to escape with their iPhones and other valuable electronics intact.
As a series of declarative headlines accompanying recent police blotter items in the Brooklyn Paper would suggest, neighborhood residents need to know one thing—"there's a lot of crime in Fort Greene."
Surely, for the dozens of Fort Greene-Clinton Hill residents making it into the New York Police Department's rundown of robberies, assaults and other crimes, things can get pretty dicey on the beautiful brownstone-lined sidewalks of Brooklyn.
But how about for the rest of us who manage to escape the clutches of the trolling Fort Greene?
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According to the most recent NYPD crime statistics, robberies and assaults are up, while murders and burglaries are down compared to this time last year in the 88th Precinct, which covers Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
In August, for thieves targeting straphangers distracted by their iPhones while walking to and from the neighborhood's subway stations.
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Even in its glowing review of the neighborhood, this Brooklyn magazine suggests that the neighborhood is a dangerous place to live—. But what do you think?
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