Brownsville is a battlefield.
The gang warfare that cut down Brooklyn mom Zurana Horton is an endless epidemic that has residents so terrified that they don’t even feel safe walking the streets by day.
Friday’s after-school gunfire — which also left a sixth-grade student and a parent wounded — stemmed from an ongoing beef between two warring factions, the Hoodstars and the Waves.
Members of both gangs told The Post that they consider themselves the modern-day Bloods and Crips — and sources say their violent feud has been raging for several years.
Both gangs specialize in robberies, dealing drugs and other small-time crimes — but their rift regularly leads to gunfire.
Members of the crews live in and around two housing projects, Glenmore Plaza and the Howard Houses, and have such a tight grip on the neighborhood that residents are too scared to call 911 and feel that they are in danger every time they step outside.
It is a 24-hour fear, said resident Mellisa Storm, 33.
“I don’t feel safe here. This happened at 2:30 in the afternoon,” the mom of three said of the Horton slaying. “I never wanted to go out at night because of the violence, but it’s bad during the day now, too.”
Another 33-year-old woman — who was too scared to give her name because she “didn’t want to die” — said, “Good people are dying here every day because gangs run the street. It’s too dangerous to do anything out here even in daylight.
“I pray every day that bullets don’t fly through my window. Every day is a gift.”
Peter Sadek, 58, who owns the Lucky Supermarket, near where Horton was shot, said the real trouble starts at night.
“Kids can’t be in the street at night. These people do not hesitate. They shoot and run. Where are the parents?” he said.
“Two years ago, a little boy was shot. I remember cleaning up the blood.”
Conrad White, 45, who has lived on Pitkin Avenue for 20 years, said the Horton shooting “is nothing new.”
“Nothing’s changed,” he said. “Kids hanging out on the street just looking for trouble all day. Nothing’s ever gonna change.”
Additional reporting by Larry Celona