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Nosy Neighbor: Is crime lower in the 1st Precinct?
M. wrote in a comment a while back: “When we moved to Tribeca in the late ’70s, the 1st Precinct had the lowest crime against individuals in all five boroughs. It was one of the many things that attracted us to the neighborhood. Where does the 1st Precinct rank now?”
And it reminded me that it was time to publish the Year in Crime. For the year to date, overall crime numbers across the categories come to a total very close to last year’s — 769 vs. 766 — with different trends depending on the crime: felony assault and burglary are down; rape, robbery, grand larceny and grand larceny auto are up. (I also looked at these stats in May 2023, and before that, August 2022.
But back to the question in terms of ranking. There are 20 precincts in Manhattan, and I clicked on each report and grabbed the overall crimes number for 2025. Using that, we rank at the bottom: there was only one precinct with more crimes and that was the 19th, Midtown on the East Side between 59 and 96. (The lowest was the Central Park precinct, coming in at 25 total crimes.)
And another note: the NYPD’s Compstat reports only go back to 1993, but compared to that, the neighborhood is much safer across nearly every category.
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It is important to focus NOT so much on the percentages, but instead on the raw numbers. By my count there have been a total of just 6 or 7 murders in the Financial District over the last 18 years. That, in a neighborhood that has about half a million people in it on an average weekday, is an astoundingly low number and in all but one case, the victim knew the assailant. (husband kills wife, drug deal gone bad, spurned lover kills woman who rejected him, etc).
In addition, the population of FiDi, Tribeca and BPC was much smaller in the 90’s – early 2000’s, so it is remarkable that our actual stats are so low despite the dramatic increase in population.
The reality is that we live in a very safe neighborhood, despite some public perceptions and the rabid press. The facts speaks for themselves. I have always felt safe here.
Agree on murder risk. However, as long tenured resident – I have felt less safe or poorer quality of life in the last 5 years. More disorder, more vagrants hanging around and less clean sidewalks and streets.
I voted early. Time for change to see if this trend can change
I agree with Luis, you can’t look at % when numbers are so small. This a remarkably safe area to live in. Almost all of Manhattan is shockingly safe given the huge amount of people. The murder rate is lots of states is way higher than NYC.