8. Park Slope
Brooklyn parents must be clutching their pearls to see The Slope on this list of neighborhoods to avoid in Brooklyn! Although the 78th precinct, which consists mainly of Park Slope, seems to have a pretty decent ranking with the locals in the sense that most don’t bat an eye when needing to travel through this area of Brooklyn, it’s no secret that some serious crimes can still be found here. With a lower population of 66,715, the crime rate is still at a high 1.2441 crimes per 1,000 residents. So far this year, 15 burglaries, 8 felony assaults, 41 grand larcenies, 6 grand larcenies of motor vehicles, 11 robberies and two rapes have been accounted for. Even with crime diminishing since the early 90’s, some serious stuff still goes down. Back in ’97 a heroic neighbor of two Palestinian [terrorists] gave a couple of patrol officers a tip-off about their plot to bomb a subway station. Being an Egyptian immigrant who’s first language was not English, he communicated to the best of his ability to these officers and they miraculously pieced everything together just in the nick of time! It appeared that when their Park Slope apartment had been raided by police, the two criminals were already cocked and ready to go; one of them being shot when reaching for his detonator. Both men lived and were convicted, however, it was a close call considering plotting bombs in subway stations isn’t something you pull-off overnight, yet the officers only had one night to pull off their act of heroism. A couple of hours later and everyone’s lives who traveled on that subway that day would have been changed forever.
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