Ms. Robinson said she feared that selective enforcement would unfairly target businesses in her district, which includes Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights.

In New York City, the neighborhoods include Borough Park, Williamsburg, and Crown Heights in the borough of Brooklyn.

Yesterday's nonpartisan election capped a turbulent political period in the 40th Council District, which includes Crown Heights.

But the list was said to include the Lower East Side and Washington Heights in Manhattan, Crown Heights in Brooklyn and Flushing in Queens.

"If the police and the community didn't get along, you wouldn't have this type of event," said Rabbi Jacob Z. Goldstein, chairman of Community Board 9, which includes Crown Heights.

But Mr. Eugene refused again to sign an affidavit stating that he had met requirements that he lived in the district, the 40th in Brooklyn, which includes Crown Heights.

Brooklyn Community Board 8 includes Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Weeksville.

Brooklyn Community Board 9 includes Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, and Wingate.

District 17 in Brooklyn, which includes Crown Heights, has the second-largest average class size with 24.3 students, though the district is 6 percent below capacity.

But in central Brooklyn, at the nexus of neighborhoods that include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, there is a movement to develop fiscal responsibility.