Mazal Tov's View More

Crime Down Citywide, but Crown Heights is Seeing a Spike

Mayor de Blasio’s recent press conference, chock full of happy talking points about the decline of crime in our city, was a bitter pill to swallow for many in the neighborhood of Crown Heights. According to the CompStat numbers, there were six murders in the 77th Precinct alone in the first five months of this year, compared with only one in the same period in 2018 — an eye-popping increase of 500%.