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NYC’s population shrank by 78K last year, census estimates show​



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Published March 14, 2024

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The Big Apple has gotten smaller again.
Nearly 78,000 residents fled New York City last year, shrinking its population down to 8.26 million people, according to the latest census estimates released on Thursday and first reported by the New York Times.
In 2022, more than 126,000 New Yorkers moved out of the city.

A mover puts belongings into a moving truck following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., September 1, 2020New York City lost nearly 78,000 residents in 2023. REUTERS
Between April 2020 and July 2023, which coincided with the height of the COVID pandemic, the city experienced a mass exodus of 550,000 residents, shrinking its population by more than 6%.




The latest concerning decline was contested by city officials, who argued that it did not fully take into account the influx of migrants that have been flooding the city.
 

Half of attacks against MTA staff on NYC subways involved perps with mental illness, lengthy rap sheets: records​



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Published March 14, 2024, 6:13 p.m. ET










Half of the nearly 40 perps busted for attacking MTA employees in the subway system last year have histories of mental illness — along with lengthy rap sheets, a Post investigation has found.
Of the 38 people charged with 41 separate assaults on train drivers, conductors, token booth clerks and other staffers underground, 20 of them had at least five arrests to their names and documented psychological problems, according to documents obtained by The Post.
“This is what I have said for some time — people with severe mental illness who pose a risk to themselves or other passengers should be in treatment, not living on the subways,” MTA chair and CEO Janno Lieber said in a statement Thursday.
According to a Post investigation, half of the 40 suspects arrested for assaulting MTA employees in the subway system had a long history of mental illness. 11
According to a Post investigation, half of the 40 suspects arrested for assaulting MTA employees in the subway system had a long history of mental illness. Stephen Yang
He was among the frustrated officials and cops who have pinned the problem on New York’s revolving-door criminal justice system — which has few provisions to deal with chronically mentally ill New Yorkers, who often end up on Rikers Island and then back on the streets without getting the help they need.

“You cannot arrest your way out of the problem,” said NYPD Transit chief Michael Kemper in a statement.
 

One dead, three more shot in overnight NYC violence​



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Published March 16, 2024, 12:11 p.m. ET










A man was fatally shot outside a Brooklyn nightclub early Saturday, police said.
The 23-year-old was shot in the head in front of Trendz Lounge on Ditmas Avenue, near East 89th Street, shortly before 4:30 a.m. and pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital, cops said.
There have been no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing, the NYPD said.

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A 60-year-old man was shot in the back and a 29-year-old was shot in the leg in Harlem shortly before 10:30 p.m. Friday, police said. Christopher Sadowski
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The double shooting in Harlem occurred shortly before 10:30 p.m. Friday. Christopher Sadowski


Bullets also flew in Harlem Friday night, where a 60-year-old man was shot in the back and a 29-year-old was shot in the leg shortly before 10:30 at 2026 7th Avenue, near West 121st St., cops said.


Both victims went to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, police said.


There have been no arrests.

In Queens, a man was shot in the ankle at 71-15 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway around 6:50 a.m. Saturday, police said.


There have been no arrests.
 

Half of all New Yorkers will flee city in next 5 years as quality of life plummets post-pandemic: poll​



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Published March 19, 2024

Updated March 19, 2024, 5:20 p.m. ET








Just half of all New Yorkers plan to stay in the city over the next five years, and anger over quality of life has skyrocketed since the pandemic — with just 30% saying they’re happy here, according to a damning poll from the The Citizens Budget Commission.


The non-profit think tank’s first such post-pandemic survey, released Tuesday, also found that only 37% of New Yorkers thought public safety in their neighborhood was excellent or good, down from 50% six years ago.


When asked if they planned to stay in the Big Apple until 2028, only 50% of those surveyed said yes, down from 58% in 2017, according to the CBC.

Just 30% of New Yorkers are happy with quality of life, survey claims.
Just 30% of New Yorkers are happy with quality of life, survey claims. ZUMAPRESS.com
“People are fed up with the quality of life. There’s a general sense of lawlessness. You go into the CVS and there’s shoplifting. People’s cars get vandalized,” Queens Councilman Robert Holden told The Post.




Half of the 6,600 households polled also said they felt unsafe riding the subway during the day, a drastic reduction from the more than four out of five New Yorkers who said so in 2017.






The survey also showed steep slides in happiness with the quality of public education, government services and cleanliness in the city.


New Yorkers were also increasingly dissatisfied with traffic, bike and pedestrian safety and subway service.


White people, residents of Manhattan and those making higher incomes were more likely to report satisfaction with city life than other groups, according to the poll.


The massive decline of satisfaction with the general quality of life in New York City was buoyed by the fact that 50% of residents were happy with the quality of life in their neighborhood.


Some 43% of residents making more than $200,000 a year approved of living in their neighborhood, as did 45% of those earning more than $100,000, the survey found.


Only 30% of New Yorkers making less than $35,000 felt the same.
 

Two dead in apparent murder-suicide, four injured in overnight NYC shootings​



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Published March 23, 2024, 11:44 a.m. ET








A man and woman were found dead in Queens, with gunshot wounds to the head in what the NYPD described as an apparent murder-suicide.


Officers responding to a 911 call found the bodies of Joseph Murphy, 38, and Kenisha Mirrison, 35, inside 109-64 143rd Street in Jamaica around 2:45 p.m. Friday, police said.


A gun was recovered near the dead man and the investigation remains ongoing, cops said.


A photo of a house in Jamaica, Queens where a 38-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were found with gunshot wounds to the head
Cops are investigating the deaths of a man and woman found shot in the head in Queens. Google Maps
In the Bronx, three people were shot in two separate incidents overnight, including a 30-year-old man struck in the foot outside 1702 Watson Ave. in Soundview shortly before 12:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.




The victim was in stable condition at Jacobi Medical Center.


There have been no arrests, authorities said.
 

2 teenagers among 3 New Yorkers killed in pair of Big Apple shootings about 20 minutes apart: cops​



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Published March 25, 2024, 1:35 a.m. ET








Two teenagers were among three New Yorkers gunned down across the Big Apple Sunday night in a pair of deadly shootings, according to authorities.


Two victims, including an 18-year-old woman, were fatally struck by gunfire in Harlem before a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed in Brooklyn about 20 minutes later, police said.


When cops reached the scene of the first shooting around 7:27 p.m., they found Ashley Ballard, 18, with gunshot wounds to the back and head, and 25-year-old Harry Mendoza shot in the head near East 128th Street and Lexington Avenue, the NYPD said.

Police say an 18-year-old woman was shot and killed in Harlem over the weekend.
Police say two people were shot and killed in Harlem over the weekend. G.N.Miller/NYPost
Both were rushed to Harlem Hospital where Ballard, of East Harlem, was pronounced dead shortly after 8 p.m.




Mendoza, of Upper Manhattan, was initially listed in critical condition, but later died of his wounds at around 10 p.m., cops said.






It’s unclear what the relationship was between the two Manhattan victims and whether they were intended targets.

Police are spotted at the scene following a fatal shooting on 256 east 37th street in Brooklyn, New York.
Police are spotted at the scene following a fatal shooting on 256 east 37th street in Brooklyn, New York. Wayne Carrington
Gunshots then struck 17-year-old Bryan Henriquez in the neck and torso near 256 East 37th St. in Brooklyn at around 7:45 p.m., the NYPD said.


The Flatbush resident was taken by EMS to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead.


No motive was immediately known in either shooting as the investigations were ongoing.









No arrests have been made.
 





Attacks in NYC transit jump a massive 50% as subway murders surge: stats​



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Published March 24, 2024, 4:25 p.m. ET










Crime on the subways has become significantly more violent since the pandemic with the number of felony assaults soaring when compared to pre-pandemic levels, an analysis by The Post revealed.
The number of attacks on trains that left victims injured jumped 53% from 2023’s 570 felony assaults to the 373 reported in 2019, according to stats.
Those 200 extra felony assaults meant that attacks resulting in substantial injury accounted for 25% of 2,285 major crimes reported on trains and in stations in 2023, compared to just 15% of the 2,499 major crimes in 2019, the data show.
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A rider sits inside the train as NYPD patrol the subway platform at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in Brooklyn on March 15, 2024. The scene unfolded just hours after one man was left shot and badly injured after he lost his gun amid a fight aboard a train. REUTERS
Police officers patrolling at Barclay Station, Brooklyn during a citywide manhunt for a potential serial stabber 8
The number of attacks on trains that left victims injured jumped 53% from 2023’s 570 felony assaults to the 373 reported in 2019, according to stats. Gabriella Bass

Ridership remains down about 30% compared to the pre-pandemic years. These days approximately 4 million people ride the subways a day during the week, compared to 5.5 million in the run-up to COVID’s arrival and the city’s shutdown, according to estimates.







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NY Post composite
The surge in attacks underground that left victims injured and in need of treatment comes as the transit system sees a surge in murders.
There were three murders underground in 2019 compared to 10 in 2022 and five in 2023, according to the analysis.
There have already been three murders in the first three months of 2024, the data show.
Without the surge in assaults, overall crime in the transit system would be roughly in line with the rates seen underground before the pandemic when adjusting for ridership.
The surge in violence has left cops and criminal justice experts flummoxed, with no clear explanation of what is driving the disturbing trend.
Police officers at a taped-off crime scene outside a Bronx subway station where a 15-year-old was critically injured in a shooting incident 8
There have already been three murders in the first three months of 2024, the data show. Christopher Sadowski
Michael M. Kemper and John Nathan Lieber speaking at a news conference about a shooting at Hoyt Schermerhorn train station, with police officers present 8
MTA chairman Janno Lieber and NYPD Transit division chief Michael Kemper address reporters assembled outside of the Hoyt-Schemerhorn station after a fight-turned-shooting aboard a train arriving there left one man badly injured. William C Lopez/New York Post
“Things are different, things have changed,” said Christopher Herrmann, an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City University of New York, who hypothesized that lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic were at play.
“When the PD is there, things are good; but when they’re not there, the numbers go up or the high-profile incidents happen and that’s what drives this fear of crime.”
The NYPD did not respond to request for comment by deadline.
“We have full confidence in the NYPD to keep New Yorkers safe in transit, and a surge of 1,000 officers has reduced crime significantly over the last six weeks,” said MTA spokeswoman Joana Flores.
Trains arrive simultaneously on both sides of a central platform at the massive Hoyt-Schemerhorn station. 8
Trains arrive on both sides of a platform Paul Martinka
The number of felony assaults was remarkably stable before the pandemic — after which, it shot up and then plateaued above 550, the figures show.
There were 375 in 2018, which was just two more than in 2019; while there were 340 in 2017, according to the data.
As the city reopened post-vaccination, the number of assaults underground jumped: The subway system clocked 466 felony assaults in 2021, as riders trickled back; and then skyrocketed to 556 in 2022 before inching up again in 2023, the data show.
“Reduced ridership [created] an environment with fewer witnesses, perpetrators become emboldened – and you see a permission structure develop,” said one veteran cop. “There’s systemic issues like inadequate staffing, recruitment, training; punitive legislation by local and state government; and a lack of mental health resources, insufficient social support services.”
The cop added: “All of these things contribute to a rise in violence. It’s never just one thing.”
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Assaults targeting MTA employees and NYPD officers underground have surged post-pandemic amid a jump in overall attacks. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post
The number of assaults on MTA employees on trains and stations and cops patrolling the system has soared too: 100 cops and 60 transit employees were assaulted in the system in 2023; both figures were up sharply from 2019 when 71 cops and 32 transit employees were assaulted.
The Post obtained documents earlier this month that showed showed that of the 41 cases of assault against MTA employees that were solved in 2023, more than half of the suspects arrested had histories of mental illness.
Additionally,The Post also revealed that the recent surge in crime was preceded by a massive drop-off in the number of patrols underground after the NYPD spent the $60 million in overtime it received from Gov. Kathy Hochul to boost its presence underground.
An ongoing debate over subway crime has raged as some zero in on recent homicides while their opponents argue the system remains safer than the city at-large and complain individual attacks get too much attention.
The paper’s examination of crime underground began after three people were murdered in just three weeks underground — headline grabbing events that were followed by the slashing of a conductor on an overnight train in Brooklyn, a subsequent work stoppage protesting safety worries by the MTA’s biggest union and Hochul controversially deciding to call in the National Guard.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul — alongside MTA chairman Janno Lieber — announces that she will deploy the National Guard into portions of the subway system as a show of force. James Messerschmidt
Mayor Adams ordered cops to work additional overtime shifts to boost patrols amid the uptick and has signaled that he may look to expand the ranks of the NYPD’s transit division amid the boomeranging crime numbers — which fall with policing surges, but then spike again afterward.



“They have to be there in some presence and some way, so people feel deterred,” said John Jay’s Herrmann. “That they feel like ‘Hey, maybe there’s not as many cops, but if I do something, I’ll get caught,'”


He added: “When the cops are in the system, the crime goes down, but when the cops aren’t in the system, the crime goes back up.”
 

Commuter killed after being pushed in front of moving NYC subway train in unprovoked attack​



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Published March 25, 2024, 9:04 p.m. ET








A commuter was struck and killed by a Manhattan subway train Monday after being shoved onto the tracks by an emotionally disturbed person in an unprovoked attack, according to police and sources.


The victim was pushed onto the tracks as a northbound 4 train was entering the East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station in East Harlem just before 7 p.m., police sources said.


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The train was unable to stop in time and fatally struck the individual, whose identity has not been released. William Miller
FDNY, EMT's and MTA and NYPD at the scene of a person hit  and killed 5
The victim was struck and killed by a Manhattan subway train Monday after being shoved onto the tracks in an unprovoked attack. William Miller
The train was unable to stop in time and fatally struck the individual, whose identity has not been released.




The person was pronounced dead shortly after and a suspect, described as an emotionally disturbed person, was taken into custody, according to the sources. Charges are pending.








Mental illness has played a role in half of the attacks on MTA workers in the subway system last year.


Of the 38 people charged with 41 separate assaults on transit system employees, 20 of them had documented psychological problems, according to a Post investigation.
 

NYPD to flood subways with 800 more cops to target fare-beaters as crime surges​



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Published March 25, 2024, 5:47 p.m. ET










The NYPD is blitzing the subway system with 800 more cops over the next five days to hunt down fare-beaters as it continues to attack the quality-of-life issue, claiming the move curbs far more violent crimes.
The department’s new “Operation Fare Play” — which comes one day after a Post analysis found that violent attacks on the rails have jumped by more than 50% since 2019 — will target stations throughout the five boroughs, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said at a press conference with other department brass at the subway stop at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue in Manhattan on Monday.
The extra officers will be deployed to stations based on the transit stops’ crime levels, MTA statistics and community complaints, Chell said.
“This is not a one-week deal,” Chell said of the “surge” tactic.
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The NYPD is blanketing the subways with 800 more cops over the next few days as part of a new initiative called “Operation Fare Play” designed to target turnstile jumpers. Stefano Giovannini

“We’re gonna do it time and time again. We’re not giving the locations ’cause we don’t want people to know,” he said. “What we want them to know is, ‘Don’t think you can come down here and get a free ride and bring your weapons.’
 

3 stabbing attacks in and around NYC subway in one day as transit crime concerns soar​



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Published March 25, 2024, 3:08 p.m. ET








Three people were stabbed in separate attacks in and around Big Apple subway stations on Monday, as The Post revealed in a report how transit crime has become increasingly violent.


In one attack, a female attacker knifed another woman in the back with an “unknown object” by the turnstile area at the Franklin Avenue C train station in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 11:40 a.m., cops said.


The injured woman was taken to a local hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.


FILE Fulton St. and Franklin Avenue station in Brooklyn. 5
One woman knifed another in the back inside the Franklin Avenue C train station in Bedford-Stuyvesant early Monday, authorities said. Seth Gottfried
Her attacker fled the station on foot, police said.




On the Upper West Side just after 8 a.m., a 26-year-old man was stabbed in the buttocks in an unprovoked attack at West 96th Street and Broadway, police said.







The attack happened steps from the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 subway station — with video showing a cordoned-off crime scene outside a T-Mobile store.


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A 26-year-old man was stabbed in the buttocks in an unprovoked attack steps from the subway entrance at West 96th Street and Broadway, cops said. Seth Gottfried
The assailant took off, cops said.


In Brooklyn around 4:30 a.m., a 52-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the back during a feud over smoking inside the Kosciuszko Street J train station, authorities said.


The alleged stabber fled out onto the street, where he was quickly taken into custody, with charges pending, police said.


Police were investigating a stabbing on the train on the J line at Broadway and Kosciuszko St. in Brooklyn, Monday, March 25, 2024. 5
A 52-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the back during a feud over smoking inside the Kosciuszko Street J train station, authorities said. Robert Mecea
Police were investigating a stabbing on the train on the J line at Broadway and Kosciuszko St. in Brooklyn, Monday. 5
The Kosciuszko Street attacker was taken into custody with charges pending, cops said. Robert Mecea
A group of people standing at the subway entrance at W 96th St and Broadway MTA station for 1,2,3 trains 5
The West 96th Street and Broadway attack happened steps from the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 subway station Seth Gottfried
It was unclear who exactly has been smoking inside the station, prompting the outburst of violence.



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A recent analysis by The Post revealed that the number of attacks on trains that left victims injured jumped 53% when comparing 2023’s 570 felony assaults to the 373 reported in 2019.


Those 200 extra felony assaults meant that attacks resulting in substantial injury accounted for 25% of 2,285 major crimes reported on trains and in stations in 2023, compared to just 15% of the 2,499 major crimes in 2019, the data show.
 
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