NYC's foreclosure crescent

Of the 15 ZIP codes with the most foreclosures, nine are in Queens and three are in Brooklyn, basically following a crescent-shaped corridor running roughly along the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Ocean Hill and Flatbush. The last three of the top 15 are in Staten Island.

New York's Foreclosure Crescent

First-Time Foreclosures by Borough, July 2006-July 2008