Articles about “BadOldDays”
Crime Surges In Williamsburg, Washington Heights, Down 0.1% Overall
Via Runs With Scissors' Flickr Better pause production on those "Ray Kelly For Mayor" bumper stickers: nine police precincts have seen a surge in crime in recent weeks, including the 34th Precinct in Washington Heights [pdf],...
Is Union Square Slipping Back To The Bad Old Days?
A marijuana plant growing tall and proud in Union Square park last year. Recently we've been wondering if the West Village was falling back into bad old days trends and today the Post makes the argument...
Video: Mike Huckabee's History Cartoon Warns About Dangers Of Disco
For far too long innocent children growing up in Obamerica have been brainwashed to believe that they should feel guilty for being such awesome Americans. Mike Huckabee is pretty fed up with what he describes as...
Bad Old Days: NYPD May Suffer Significant Shrinkage
Flickr user philliefan99 Earlier this week, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly mentioned that the police department wasn't recruiting any new officers given their tight budget. But according to a report released yesterday from the Independent Budget Office...
Even More Crime In City's Public Housing?
According to city statistics, violence in public housing projects jumped in many boroughs in 2010, with a 107% spike in murders in Bronx projects. But could there be more? The Daily News reports that elected officials...
Washington Heights On Verge Of "Bad Old Days"?
After a spike in possibly gang-related violence, State Senator Adriano Espalliat is calling for police to step up their presence in Washington Heights, saying he did not want to see the "bad old days" return. He...
Subway Crimes Are Up, But Bad Old Days Are Not Back
zlandr's flickr According to the NYPD, 2010 will see the first year-over-year subway crime increase since 2004, thanks mostly to that age-old crime syndicate: roving gangs of hormonal, hooligan teenagers. Major crime is up five percent...
Auto Crime Wave Attacks Astoria!
An unassuming street in Astoria. (Flickr user Harris Graber) Though the NYPD has been cracking down on auto theft, Commissioner Kelly seemed to want to focus on entire cars. However, things like tires and car radios...
Murders And Rapes Continue To Increase In 2010
Photograph by Matt Coats on Flickr Continuing a trend that has been going on all year, the murder rate has continued to steadily increase throughout the city, and has climbed 13.2 percent overall from this time...
At Least 13 Shot, Two Dead In One Night In The Bronx
At least 13 people were shot and two were killed in one bloody night in the Bronx. The shootings, which all occurred on Friday night and early Saturday morning, sent the boroughs crime rate soaring, and...
Guess The Year: Bad Old Days
What year did things get so bad in that people were locking up their bicycles to their refrigerators and boarding up their windows? Bonus points for guessing the borough and neighborhood. (And as always, cheaters will be...
2010's Crime Stats So Far: Good News And Bad News
The Daily News is throwing out a bunch of numbers today now that the crime stats for the first half of the year are in. What do they show? Crime is up on some areas, down in others, and overall about the same as last year. Here are some of the main points:
Latest NYPD Crime Stats: Murder, Rape Rates Up Vs. Last Year
The most recent CompStat numbers (PDF) A reader wrote on Gothamist Contribute, "Crime rate down again (almost 9%) last week compared to last year. How come Gothamist doesn't report this but breathlessly writes about a fictional...
NYPD Command Shifts After Crime Spikes
Flickr user SpecialKRB In light of the rise in the murder rate this year, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly will be shifting around 40 of the departments commanders, which will affect every borough and dozens of units....
Rise In Recent Subway Robberies, Assaults
Photograph by dorkasaurusrex on Flickr The Post has some details on a "violent spate of daytime robberies and assaults on Manhattan subway" that occurred this week, adding that it could be "another indicator the city could...
Major Crimes Were Up Last Week
Compstat figures for April 4-11 (the week before last week) More fodder for "bad old days" worrying? According to the Post, crimes in all major crimes were up last week: "There was a 27 percent increase...
Worrying Whether "Bad Old Days" Of Crime Are Back
A recent uptick in crime—and startling incidents like the Times Square Easter night "wilding" and yesterday's Brooklyn shooting that wounded three including a five-year-old—has people wondering if the "bad old days" of crime are back. Today, the...