NYC’s deadliest neighborhood is a true crime hotbed
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Welcome to “The Killing Fields.” The Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York has the highest number of unsolved homicides in the city. Much of the crime can be traced back to shady mortgage deals and housing scams that tore the neighborhood apart. Author Stacy Horn detailed to The Post a few of the most chilling true-crime stories over the decades, from strangulation to stray bullets and even a self-described “Zodiac II” serial killer. She’s joined by retired NYPD detective William Simon and community advocate Andre T. Mitchell-Mann for a deep dive on the history of one of NYC’s roughest spots – and what is being done today to fix it.
I'm so proud to have been born and to have grown up in the most violent neighborhood in New York City!
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Rough hands ???? Why don’t you try doing everything law enforcement has to deal with ? You would not survive one day 😂
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You put that many black folk in one place and the crime numbers gonna be astronomical
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Atleast she said it correctly the financial crimes👨💼👨⚖️ caused the decay of that area and the urban popularity brought it back up not gentrification
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Rise in rent has calmed down east New York it’s been diffeeent for a few years now
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Bank fraud
@JesicaNavarro-q3jWhy didn’t they put this on Netflix as part of black history month. Their stories, their voices, their crimes.
@FlashesofDeathWe Lived On Essex And Atlantic From 84-93 Moving To QueensBridge Which Is Still East NY, Was Like Moving On Up For Us And Other People
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@kaddeman93My grandfather grew up in East New York, but that was in the 1910’s! The building where he lived, unbelievably, still stands. It’s right on the edge of the gentrified area.
@mariekatherine5238i thought this was gonna be about the bronx.
@WiLL.KHITESHow many committed by corrupt cops of the 75 or covered up or ignored by them.
@derbyct864Against hope
@tamekkaknuth9612snitches get stitches!
@Sammich4839Don't worry your Socialist free buses are coming
@RichardFioriglioThe author is not saying that the financial crimes of the 1960's caused the violent crime! She's saying that the financial crimes attracted bad elements into East NY, and that in turn led to an outbreak of violent crimes.
@R2D2C_3poSo people are murdering other human beings because of mortgage fraud? Nah son
@smacc1323"Weapontry"???
@IamRu1964I grew up in the East during the no camera era HnP to be exact . For those who don't know Hemlock and Pitkin 544 is da building Money MOB is da gang
@cashrule7356I remember da east in da 80s and da 90s my is from da bammas that's a place you didn't want to be it was worst then any place I've been 100 killings dat 1 area in one yr is correct da east was dangerous and still is
@daRoTtenYou forgot to mentioned Red Hook
@mortalkombat1712that's where Goodfellas tales place
@stewart8127East NY is still bad in 2025 I seen a shooting there in august I was doing a fire inspection in a deli come out to 2 kids yelling at each other 1 pulls a gun shoots the other kid I ran to my van and took off crazy
@robertrios650I’ve heard about ENY years ago and I’m from down South.
@derrickctv1820Let's be real, those unlucky cops that get stuck in eny have a hard hard job. 190k people living in poverty, desperate with nothing to lose.
@NYCDurraniWhite people are still scratching their heads “why is this happening” lol
@DrolmulsI got shot in the head in Syracuse NY. The police didn't do any investigation. They just don't care.
@beng4647Over 20 years later you still see idiots outside wasting there life in nothing
@Angel-4xeThe last time I lived in East New York a block away from the 75th precinct. I once walked into a Subway restaurant as some police from the 75th precinct was in the middle of a shakedown. I couldn't move out of the city fast enough. SMBH
@khalifahmuhammad1574F’ing BS!! Why NOW are these two white folks so concerned! White people are NOT altruistic!! It’s something in it for them!! Remember they said “neighborhood in transition” because they are getting things investigated and fixed so they can BUY PROPERTY and help push blacks and Latinos OUT!!!
One of the biggest corrupt police scandals went on in the 75th Precinct area. No white folks were there trying to help and investigate then!!!!! They want to bring attention and get the CHEAP PROPERTY
Fifty Year Mortgage!
@GrumpyGenExAnd this is where single adult women begin the journey of homelessness at a shelter on Williams...
@elenasterling3159East New York, hops it gets no rougher.
@FunkyChild718I`m so fortunate to have grown up in peaceful Toronto. I never believed that America was a better place.
@MizMite2002BLM and NAACP So Quiet.
@Jru-o8nOh. That's the "75". Was such a corrupt police force the made a movie about it.
@Spider-BonsaiCops were corrupt back in the day.
@jessecompestine7861The same connection of people places and things are in dormant and will show there evil to control what's always there's
@Rectifier950Not to mention the mob used to have a dumping grounds on Fountain avenue it smelled like death all the time, for real.
@FATHERSFORDISSOLUTIONOFFAMILYCI am from the East and it was as bad as she is saying no lies detected.
@FATHERSFORDISSOLUTIONOFFAMILYCSounds like a 13/90 situation.
@SC-us1hsnyc = most dangerous city on this planet!!!!!
@Marc816Tbh eny is just a place you dont go. Im from the bronx livin in bk now n i steer clear of eny n the ville.
@lxgxndxry24She ISN'T trying to blame this on banking right?
@ghostmantagshome-er6pbTaxi Driver
@ghostmantagshome-er6pbIts stillkke that.. nothing..i mean nothing has changed...NYPD is the laziest bucnch kf monkies you will ever see
@scarfo441Im here after just now watching a man being stabbed to death on livonia and Cleveland ave under the train station IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! NOTHING CHANGED OUT THERE!
AND YT PEOPLE CAN'T SAVE ENY!
💥💥Liberal white women like this writer are the worst.
@phillyJay00Police doesnt stop crimes
@yoyo8303Why bringing these sad news back?
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