A man was murdered in one of the city’s safest police precincts yesterday, adding to an upsurge of murders in northern Brooklyn, police said.

Eric Speighpht, 33, was gunned down within several blocks of the court district in downtown Brooklyn inside the lobby of 191 Sands St., part of an affordable housing project, the Farragut Houses. It was the first homicide since November in the 84th Precinct, which encompasses the Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, and downtown Brooklyn sections of Brooklyn.

Police have neither made arrests nor established a motive in the murder.

Speighpht’s death adds to a rising murder toll in northern Brooklyn. As of the last date that police statistics were released, June 17, there have been 59 murders this year in the 10 precincts that make up the Patrol Borough Brooklyn North. The figure has risen 31.1% from the same period last year, when there were 45 homicides.

Of the city’s eight patrol boroughs, Brooklyn North is the only one to see an increase in homicides this year.

The police department’s head spokesman, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, took a long view on the spike, noting that murders in the patrol borough are down 70% since 1994.

After police found Speighpht, at about noon, he was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital and pronounced dead.

A woman who lives in the building, Evangelina Faberlle, said she saw Speighpht slumped over in the lobby of the building with a bullet next to him.

Several of Speighpht’s family members mourned his death yesterday outside his residence, which is across the street from where he was shot.