Bishop Willie Billips hangs up donated clothing on a fence in front of his Faith, Hope and Charity Church of God in the Brownsville section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013. Year-end boasts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that New York is the safest big city in America ring hollow in Brooklyn’s Brownsville, a neighborhood of entrenched gang violence that has proven stubbornly immune to strategies that have pushed crime to historic lows across the rest of the city. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)