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Notoriously violent Brooklyn neighborhood pushes ‘police free zone’

https://nypost.com/2025/10/18/us-news/nypd-agrees-to-steer-clear-of-violent-brooklyn-nabe-labeling-the-two-block-stretch-a-police-free-zone/

A notoriously violent two-block stretch of Brooklyn is fighting crime — by not calling uniformed cops, The Post has learned.

A sliver of Brownsville in the NYPD’s 73rd Precinct was transformed into a “police free zone” last week as part of an city-funded experiment called the Brownsville Safety Alliance that initially was only twice a year but now runs four times annually, organizers said.

And it’s an initiative that’s received praise from anti-cop, mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, an official with the group that runs it told The Post.

By 

Tina Moore, 

 

Shane Galvin, 

 

Rich Calder and 

 

Georgett Roberts

Published Oct. 18, 2025, 9:00 a.m. ET