A memorial to slain one-year-old Antiq Hennis is covered plastic at the Marcus Garvey Village apartments in the Brownsville section of the Brooklyn borough of New York on Monday, Dec. 30, 2013. Hennis was shot in the head Sept. 1 as his stroller was wheeled across a street. Police believe the boy's father was the intended target, but the father refused to cooperate in identifying the shooter. 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. 2, 2013 file photo, a flyer bearing an image of Antiq Hennis, the 1-year-old boy who was shot in his stroller during a walk with his parents a day earlier, is posted on a wall outside an apartment complex, in the Brownsville neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Strategies that have dropped crime to record lows across the city haven't taken hold in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, where the cycle of violence, silence and retribution seems entrenched. And community activists say a big police presence can't make up for better schools, more jobs and better housing. Children's stuffed animals and balloons make up a memorial for slain one-year-old Antiq Hennis in front of his mother's apartment, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, in the Brownsville section of New York. Hennis was fatally shot Sept. 1 by a stray bullet while being wheeled across the street in his stroller. Police believe the boy's father was the intended target of the shooting, but the father refused to cooperate in identifying the shooter. Year-end boasts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that New York is the safest big city in America ring hollow in 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. 2, 2013, mourners visit a memorial for Antiq Hennis, in the Brownsville neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, where a day earlier, the 1-year-old boy was shot and killed in his stroller during a walk with his parents. City-wide, overall crime is down more than 30 percent in the past decade. But crime went down only 9 percent in Brownsville, a small, working-class neighborhood in central Brooklyn home to mostly blacks and Hispanics. FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, police officers take a report from a woman who had her phone stolen in the Brownsville section in the Brooklyn borough of New York. NEW YORK (AP) - Five men heading to a party were shot and a woman apparently was pistol-whipped, police and a community advocate said Tuesday, marking a year-end outburst of violence in a Brooklyn neighborhood that has struggled with crime even as it hit record lows. Police were looking for a suspect or suspects in the gunfire, which erupted just after midnight at a building in the Howard Houses public housing complex in Brownsville. Residents of a sixth-floor apartment had organized a party and spread the word on Facebook, said Tony Herbert, a community activist who said he had spoken to some of the guests and those injured. Some people who'd had previous conflicts with the party crowd showed up outside the building, and bullets flew in the lobby as the teenage victims tried to run back inside, Herbert said. Some residents heard two quick shots, then several more, he said. The injured were taken to hospitals, the men with wounds to their legs and feet and the woman with cuts to her head, according to police and firefighters, who didn't release the patients' names. Police said all were expected to survive. The woman was in "excruciating pain," said Herbert, who didn't have the full names of those injured. He planned to gather with other community advocates Tuesday to call for calm. "Our concern is that the attitude, with these young people, is that this may now be an occasion for retaliation," he said by phone. We're going to try to keep the peace. Brownsville has one the city's highest concentrations of public housing developments. Groups of youths in one housing complex sometimes have ongoing feuds with their neighbors in another, Herbert said. In Brownsville, major crime hasn't declined as steeply as it has in some other parts of the city in the last 12 years. Serious crime dropped 30 percent citywide from 2002 to 2012, compared with 9 percent in Brownsville. Killings citywide are down more than 20 percent, to a record-low 333 so far this year, compared with last year. Brownsville also has recorded a new low - 14, two fewer than in 2012. The bloodshed in Brownsville this year has included a stray bullet hitting a baby in the head and killing him as he sat in his stroller in September; the February wounding of an armed 16-year-old by police officers responding to a report of shots fired on a rooftop; a drive-by shooting in July that left six people on the sidewalk wounded; and the unsolved killing in November of a man by a gunman driving near a public school.