NYP: Broadway sings New York’s blues as crime, costs slow post-COVID comeback — Page 7

No, sincerely show the data showing these large spikes. Yes crime did increase with the pandemic and is also receding despite the migrants coming to the city. There never WERE any "Glory Days", you're living in a fantasy! This is a major Metropolitan area that used to see 2000, 1500, 800 murders in a year. It was over 1000 as recently as 1995. So why don't YOU tell me exactly what years were the "Glory Days" you seem to think existed that you don't consider us living in now comparatively?

TheatreFan4 said: "MezzoDiva47 said: "wow

ppl need to get a grip on here


new york city is less safe today than it was ten years ago and even less safe compared to twenty years ago

"

Surely you can back that up with some statistics and not just a "feeling" right? Oh... you mean you can't? Okay..."

Actually, post 9/11 NYC was the safest place to be and had a very low crime rate for about a year after the attack. I moved to NYC around that time and the city felt very safe back then. So yeah, two decades ago sounds about right. It was a time of unity among New Yorkers and I've heard stories of unmatched hospitality towards them by other states where they traveled post 9/11. Right now national crises and tragedies only seem to divide us. 

Updated On: 6/23/24 at 10:02 PM

TheatreFan4 said: "It is INSANE that we're complaining about the smell of weed and hearing salsa music. Like there are a thousand other smells that are actually gross in this city and you want to focus on weed? Something that is fully100% legal in the state to be enjoying and actually doesn't smell bad, you just hold racist/classist views about it."

 

Well maybe you enjoy the smell of weed, but I don't when walking through the streets. And I am a social smoker.

Day after day I walked up Broadway to my theaters through clouds of it. I reeked of it when I got to work, sometimes walking into meetings,  and all day long when the lobby door opened it filled the lobby and the box office. So no, it is not Insane to complain about it. And the legal thing is no good argument. It went legal and manners and respect for people went out the door. And as far as the racist view of it, I am a black man and while walking up Broadway, and elsewhere, it was predominantly black people openly smoking it. That's not racist, that is what is happening. I now live in Colorado where it is legal and you don't walk down the street with the smell of weed everywhere. 

 

MezzoDiva47 said: "while the situation has improved it is nowhere yet near the glory days from a couple of decades ago"

The low-point in crime wasn't a couple of decades ago; it was in the mid- to late-2010s, during the de Blasio administration.

East Village stabbing at 14th Street kills man – NBC New York

See the statement by the city councilman in the article. Again, the question is not one of statistics. Rather, what are people reading and hearing about NYC when planning their leisure time.

 

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/east-village-stabbing-14th-street/5533964/

 

I guess next in this thread we will be posting crimes in the Tri-State Area.