I think Bloomberg is a bit delusional...... and he forgot to mention that eight women in Forest Hills have been assaulted and robbed in the past week!!

If Bloomberg believes the city is so safe, why does he need 3 surveillance cameras and a cop stationed outside his East 79th St. townhouse?

Because he lived here during the 70s and 80s. He knows better.

can't we start a petition to get this clown to resign? he doesn't need us anymore. he got what he came for.

Well, the city does look safe from the window of an SUV or limo. Walking home late at night on a dark and almost deserted street in Brooklyn can be a different story...for a woman or a man. Even on the UES, women are mugged or worse from time to time.

Bilderberg, I mean Bloomberg, lives in a fantasy world of multi-billionaires! He has nothing in common with the average New Yorker struggling to eke-out a living!

Bloomie's concern for women's safety doesn't include letting them use their 2nd Amendment rights.

Mayor Bloomberg is the guy who gets driven by a security detail... to a subway stop... so he can avoid an underground transfer amongst regular citizens and still claim he "rides the subway to work."

This is the guy who is commenting on how safe it is for women at night.

Newsflash!
Wealthy mayor out of touch with regular citizens!

Manhattan is great. L.E.S., Harlem, Midtown West, Spanish Harlem and Washington Heights were very scary for a long time. But it's true, the other boroughs are still pretty shady.

my friend was mugged by a push-in robber on 6th street and 2nd ave. 2 weeks ago. one block form a police station. in the village.

are you sure the police told you the truth about how safe the city is?

I didn't say crime is non existent but I do recall it being much worse. The economy is bad right now too, crime always spikes.

That doesn't surprise me. I actually hear about muggings like that in more affluent neighborhoods more often than in bad neighborhoods.
That and cars being broken into.

By better I mean less rapes, murders, gangs and drug wars.

I don't read the papers. And I've seen plenty of murders, rapes etc in L.E.S. That don't make it to the news. The must recent murder being about two months ago.

Have you been to the "other" boroughs? I didn't think so because many parts of them are not what you call "shady"

I live in Bushwick. By the other boroughs I was being pretty general. Of course there are good neighborhoods. But I think Manhattan as a whole has become pretty safe. Where as parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx are still really shady.

This is from someone who was born and raised here and has seen the huge change in NYC. I remember when Williamsburg was dangerous.

Lol... LES is scary?

I'm 27, lived in L.E.S. my whole life, up until last year. Notice the past tense "were very scary" in my previous comment. Now it's like Candyland.

Back in the day, you didn't walk out of your apt. after 7pm and you stayed away from your windows.

i've been in the LES since 1988.

i've never seen crime higher than it is today.

I have been robbed more times in the last 2 years than during the entire dinkins / giuliani years.

same for most of my friends.

don't believe everything you read in the papers.

obvious troll is obvious