Skip to content
Bushwick Daily
Advertisement
Met FreshMet Fresh

News

NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month in Bed-Stuy, run by a brand-new community-safety office of about five people with no deal with the NYPD yet

NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month at Restoration Plaza, run by a brand-new, roughly five-person community-safety office with no NYPD deal yet.

A woman holds a Don't Shoot I Want to Grow Up sign at an anti-gun-violence rally in Brooklyn

NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month in Bed-Stuy, run by a brand-new community-safety office of about five people with no deal with the NYPD yet

NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month at Restoration Plaza, run by a brand-new, roughly five-person community-safety office with no NYPD deal yet.

NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month in Bed-Stuy, run by a brand-new community-safety office of about five people with no deal with the NYPD yet
Advertisement
Met FreshMet Fresh

On June 2, a crowd of Brooklyn elected officials gathered at Restoration Plaza in Bed-Stuy to launch Gun Violence Awareness Month, with Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, and Council Members Chi Ossé and Crystal Hudson on hand. The numbers behind the photo were genuinely good: year-to-date shootings citywide were down about 6 percent, and Brooklyn led the city with a 47.6 percent drop in shooting incidents. The thing worth a second look is who was throwing the event.

The launch was led by the Office of Neighborhood Safety, part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new Mayor’s Office of Community Safety. That office is a much smaller thing than the…

The rest of this story is for members.

Enter your email to continue.

Thanks for being a member.

Filed underBrooklyn / Bushwick / News

Bushwick Daily News Desk. Neighborhood news, politics, real estate, and business coverage produced by the Bushwick Daily newsroom.

Produced by Bushwick Daily News Desk

Neighborhood news, politics, real estate, and business coverage produced by the Bushwick Daily newsroom.

View all posts

Read next

News

Bushwick gets none of the 100 Election Day poll sites where the city’s Civic Engagement Commission posts interpreters

The commission's interpreters cover 13 languages at 68 Brooklyn sites, the nearest at IS 71 on Heyward Street (Yiddish) and IS 93 in Ridgewood (Polish). It does not offer Spanish, which the Board of Elections provides at some poll sites in every borough.

Where to watch election results tonight in Bushwick, Ridgewood and Bed-Stuy

News ·

Hochul closed her campaign in Williamsburg as Blakeman ended his statewide tour at Madison Square Garden

News ·

Mamdani says Trump agreed to a visa for the Ghanaian mother of a Bronx teen shot on his way to school

News ·

Advertise with Bushwick Daily

Reach North Brooklyn, and the New Yorkers who read it.

Written in Bushwick, read across the city since 2009.

129K site visitors a month 1–2M Instagram impressions a month 24K email list members
Advertise with us →
Become a member of Bushwick Daily