This could use a good revision/proofreading, it uses punctuation incorrectly, jumps around, and is difficult for me to read. Which is a shame because the article looks interesting. Maybe I'll give it another stab after a cup of coffee.
It's very depressing and while I (who've lived in NYC for 14 years) have heard mention many times of East New York, and how it's a really shitty neighborhood, I had no idea that it really is the worst neighborhood in NYC.
It's really quite depressing, though the author does mention some initiatives that perhaps are a sign of a light at the end of a tunnel that's more than a hundred years long.