Brooklyn then and now, according to Bloomberg
Brooklyn’s doing well, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of whose parting gifts as he leaves office is an evaluation of changes in each borough over the past 12 years, while he was in office.
Bloomberg’s office charted the borough’s progress in a variety of subject areas, from population (up more than 94,000, as of July, 2012, when the population was calculated at 2,565,635) to crime (a 43 percent decline in murders, and a 35 percent drop in shootings).
There were 141 murders in Brooklyn in 2013, as of December 15, compared with 249 at that time in 2001. In addition, there were 462 shooting incidents in Brooklyn in 2013; as of mid-December, 2001, there had been 712.