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Violent crime up in bustling NYC tourist hub — no matter how Mayor Adams spins it

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Violent crime is spiking in the Big Apple’s busiest tourist hub — even as Mayor Eric Adams is set to deliver a State of the City speech raving about how much safer the five boroughs are.

NYPD crime stats show that as of Sept. 8 compared to the same period in 2023, robberies have soared more than 90% and felony assaults jumped nearly 73% in the Manhattan North Precinct — which covers tourist magnets like Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Plaza, the Theater District and St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Burglaries also jumped 58%, while the precinct has handled three murders — one more than last year over the same span — and two more rapes, from seven last year to nine this year.

VIolent crime is up in Big Apple subways — and in a key Manhattan neighborhood where tourists flock.

“Society is a mess, and all we can do is pray,” a security guard working at Eighth Avenue and West 47th Street told The Post on Sunday.

“Every day there’s something, whether it’s drugs or the homeless,” the worker said.

A local said neighborhood vagrants can be particularly troublesome.

“They’re disturbing people that live in the building,” the source said. “They block the stairs. We don’t let them stay, so we have to tell them to leave. That’s why [security] are here.” 

A homeless vagrant panhandles in the subways, where crime continues to be a concern for many New Yorkers. Stephen Yang

The Manhattan North stats are in contrast to citywide figures for the same period, which show an overall 2.5% drop in crime in the five boroughs, including a nearly 13% dip in murder.

“This is a beautiful block, the problems come in waves, and when they do, we bring attention to it, and it gets fixed,” said a 55-year-old local, who gave his name as Ojo. “We have had problems with empty buildings on this block, but since that was fixed, it’s been good. We have a block association so that does help a lot.”

Citywide burglaries have also dropped nearly 9% year to date.

The softer stats are expected to be the linchpin of Adams’ State of the City address Monday.

Officials in the mayor’s office did not respond to a Post request for comment Sunday.

Several residents and merchants in Manhattan North said that while the figures may be grim so far this year, they are better than in the recent past.

“It’s certainly safer than COVID times,” local Adam Richardson, 51, said. “Of course we have the problems with the shelter and the halfway house, but I think it’s definitely much improved.

“A lot, lot less syringes. That used to be a real problem.”

Another resident, Sal Baker, 42, agreed that things have improved.

“Much better than a year ago. Much much better,” he said. “It was awful last year.

Mayor Eric Adams is expected to rave about overall dips in crime citywide, despite jumps in Manhattan’s tourist hub. Dennis A. Clark

“There used to be needles everywhere, so it was a big problem with people walking their dogs,” Baker added. “Not only needles, but the little pink and purple capsules of drugs that had fentanyl.”

Still, underground can be a different story.

As The Post reported Sunday, the murder rate in the subway system has soared by 60% this year.

While overall transit crime has dipped, eight people have been killed in the subways so far this year, up from five over the same time span in 2023.

From 1997 to 2020, there were never more than five murders in the subway system in a single year, according to the earliest public NYPD data.

But in Manhattan North, which has a steady flow of tourist traffic — particularly with the holidays approaching — it has been a recent outlier when it comes to violent crime.

According to NYPD stats, the neighborhood saw 158 robberies through Sept. 8 this year, up from 83 over the same period last year, for a jump of 90.4%.

NYPD stats show that, while crime has dipped overall in the five boroughs, Manhattan North Precinct in the heart of Gotham is seeing more crime this year. Kevin C Downs for The New York Post
Nile Taylor, 49, was arrested in May and charged with throwing flaming liquid on a straphanger in the subways. G.N.Miller/NYPost

Cops also reported 204 felony assaults in the area, up from just 118 last year, or an increase of 72.9%, while burglaries jumped to 139, a boost from 88 last year for a 58% increase.

Even the NYPD’s neighboring Midtown South Precinct, which saw an overall drop in crime of more than 10% over last year, reported four murders — two more than last year — and 20 rapes so far this year compared to 10 over the same span last year, the stats show.

Midtown South encompasses other city mega-sites such as Penn Station, Madison Square Garden and Greeley Square. It also includes a bustling block that’s so downtrodden it’s been dubbed the “Strip of Despair.”

Merchants along the Eighth Avenue corridor said open-air drug use, emotionally disturbed vagrants and brazen shoplifters have become a way of life along the block.

“It’s like we’ve been bombed, a resident said in an earlier Post report. “It’s a bad situation. You see money exchanging, you see the crack pipes being lit, you see people fighting.

“You don’t want to dare get stuck in the middle of that.”



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