[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The sun was just setting on Memorial Day when gunshots ripped across St. Andrew’s Playground on Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Over all, murders and shootings have dropped in New York City to levels not seen since the 1950s. Murders so far this year are down 11 percent over the same period last year. But the spike in shootings in North Brooklyn over the first three months of the year, peaking at 22 in March, shows that the police have struggled to contain pockets of violence, often driven by gangs.

Source: New York Times May 29, 2019 14:43 UTC