It was once known as New York’s “Killing Ground” — and amid a surge in Big Apple crime, Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct has again scored the dubious distinction of being the city’s bloodiest.
The 5.5-mile area, which covers East New York and Cypress Hills, has recorded the most shootings so far this year — with 48 shootings in which 56 victims were hit, according to NYPD records.
The 75th is the scene of so much gunplay that even veteran cops can’t say which part is the most dangerous.
“Asking for the worst block in the 75th is like asking for the best pizza in New York — you have too many to choose from,” one NYPD source said.
The precinct was the rotten core of the Big Apple during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with a front-page story in The Post dubbing it the city’s “KILLING GROUND” in May 1993, when there was a murder every 63 hours.
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