We hear a lot about the New Brooklyn these days, about the great swaths of the borough that are enjoying the fruits of gentrification. We love that Brooklyn. But in this special package we focus on stubborn problems that are not so new and receive little attention, on quiet human dramas in less economically vibrant parts of the borough. A woman trying to reconnect with her children after prison; another brave woman’s battle with a form of breast cancer that disproportionately affects African-Americans; a blue-collar day care center struggling to keep the doors open; an employer sweating bullets about whether or not to hire; homeowners wasting endless days and years in foreclosure hearings; cops and citizens wresting with a plague of guns. Welcome to Brooklyn Under the Radar.
Source: New York Police
Department
The Guns of Brooklyn
Law enforcement recovered 1,469 guns in Brooklyn, a number that is proportionally higher than in any other borough, in 2011, according to the New York Police Department…
Source: Women in Prison
Project
Resurrection: A Mother in Prison, and Out
There were almost 80,000 children with a parent in New York prisons, including 5,240 with an incarcerated mother, in 2009, according to reports by the Women in Prison Project of the Correctional Association of New York…
Source: Realty Trac
The Three-Year Wait: Surviving Foreclosure in Brooklyn
The timeline for a New York foreclosure case opened in the fourth quarter of 2011 is an estimated 1,019 days, according to Realty Trac…
Source: New York State
Department of Health
A Positive Woman With Triple Negative Cancer
The average annual breast cancer rate for African-American women living in Brooklyn was 28.5 per 1,000, higher than any other borough, from 2004 to 2008…
Source: Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
A Job Grows in Brooklyn: How One Employer Decided to Hire
Brooklyn added more than 50,000 jobs, including more than 9,300 in the food service industry, between 2000 and 2010, according to a report from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce…
Source: National Association
of Child Care Resource
and Referral Agencies
Day Care: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods
New York is the second most expensive state in the nation for childcare, where full-time child care can cost more than $10,847, according to the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) 2010 statistics…
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