Devon Moore heard the news on Wednesday morning, and he was disgusted. But not surprised.

When Assemblyman William F. Boyland Jr. was indicted for a second time, accused again of soliciting bribes in exchange for official favors — in part to pay his legal fees from the first trial — longtime residents of Brownsville, one of Brooklyn’s most economically depressed neighborhoods, just shook their heads in resignation.

It was yet another disappointment from the man with the well-known name they sent to Albany to help them.

“But of course — you expect more,” Mr. Moore, 35, said. “But look where you’re at.”

He stood in front of the Peanut Lucky Supermarket, on a forlorn corner of Pitkin Avenue, a main shopping thoroughfare. He was steps from where a 34-year-old mother, who was trying to shield a group of children, was shot and killed in October by a teenager firing from a rooftop.

Violence and unemployment are the status quo in this neighborhood, and records indicate that in the more than eight years Mr. Boyland has been in Albany, he has done little to help change that.