Overall crime has been relatively calm in 2011, according to the NYPD, but not in the increasingly hip Rockaways where the Post warns of a recent "Tidal Crime Wave." And it sure has seen a surge. Still, crime on the peninsula is just a drop in the ocean of citywide crime. more ›

2011 may have seen some fudged crime stats, a serious jump in subway crime (damn you Apple!) and a record-breaking four million stop 'n' frisks (not to mention some charges of police brutality), but guess what? According to the latest NYPD crime statistics the Times got ahold of (versus the week older stats currently on the NYPD's website) crime was pretty much flat this year, rising just 0.2 percent through December 18 compared to 2010. more ›

In the wake of the murder of 22-year NYPD veteran Peter Figoski yesterday, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has announced that the number of law enforcement officers across the country who have died in the line of duty is already up 14% over last year. There have been 166 total fatalities so far this year, up from 146 in 2010. And Craig Floyd, Chairman of the fund, says, "For the first time in 14 years, firearms-related deaths will outnumber traffic and 'other'-related deaths." Why the increased death toll. Theories include budget cuts, increasingly violent criminals, and "anti-government" protests. more ›

Since the dawn of humanity, uptowners have battled downtowners, and east siders have fought brutally against west siders, to retain the title of champion pizza-eating neighborhood of New York. Today, the New York City Economic Development Corporation has released the statistics that can finally put this battle to rest, declaring the areas in each borough with the highest number of pizza establishments. And the winners are... more ›

Considering all the news of trucks killing defenseless cyclists, rogue racing bicycles knocking down poor grannies, and pedestrians dying crossing the street—all of which you can see on one map if you'd like—the latest stat out of the NYPD is actually pretty surprising. TransportationNation reports that this year "some 214 people have died in traffic accidents so far" according to the NYPD. Last year at this time there were 256 traffic fatalities on the books. more ›

Despite the prediction that the unflagging economic depression (what recession?) would cause crime in the United States to skyrocket, experts are "baffled" that the exact opposite has occurred—except in New York City. The Times reports that the FBI's latest crime statistics for 2010 show that violent crime is "at the lowest rate in nearly 40 years," and the "odds of being murdered or robbed are now less than half of what they were in the early 1990s." more ›

It's a gorgeous sunny day outside, and you're as far from the beach as you can get, stuck inside your airtight office with summer 2010 pretty much over forever. But take heart; statistics show that escape from this cruel world awaits just a few flights of stairs away, up toward the roof, where New Yorkers (or those just visiting New York) attempt to end it all in numbers far surpassing the rest of America. Nationally, just 2% of suicide attempts take place from tall buildings, but here in the Big Apple, almost 20% of suicides are committed via gravity. more ›

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: more ›

We're having a tough time understanding the city's public school system right now. First they're all proud that graduation rates are up. Then it turns out that some of those graduating kids were actually delinquent, failing 21-year-olds. And now, according to the Daily News, school officials have issued 72,000 suspensions this past school year, up 40% since 2006. But then again, some of those suspensions could have been for things as dumb as bringing peppermint oil or LEGOs to school. What do you want us to feel, DOE?! more ›

A new study from IBM has released the first Global Commuter Pain study today, surveying drivers in 20 cities across six continents about their rush hour commutes. Though commuters worldwide say that congestion has gotten worse in the past three years, New York ranked relatively low on the list of cities with bad traffic. more ›

Statistician Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com has named Park Slope the best place to live in the city, coming in just ahead of the Lower East Side and Sunnyside, Queens. The research, done for the latest New York Magazine, is based on things like cost of living, access to bars and restaurants, diversity and safety. Of course, Park Slopers are ready to burst out of their baby bjorns with joy. "I like what it was, I like what it's become, I like the people that live here. I like the sense of tolerance," resident Louise Fisher Cozzi told the Daily News. Sure there's tolerance, just as long as you don't try to keep their babies out of the bars. more ›

Believe it or not, Mayor Bloomberg is insisting that the NYPD's crime statistics are accurate—well, most of the time. "There's always going to be some fudging of the numbers, but it is tiny," the mayor said. "I have an enormous amount of confidence in the data." He also suggested that a study by two criminologists, which showed police precincts routinely fudge their data, may have been biased. According to Bloomberg, it was "paid for by one of the unions, so you've got to start wondering whether it was an independent study." more ›

A day after a Brooklyn cop accused police officers in Bedford Stuyvesant's 81st Precinct of under-reporting crimes and turning away victims in an effort to improve crime statistics, a Queens politician says he's heard the same allegations from other officers—but they won't testify for fear of retribution. more ›

Good news to assuage pyrophobics across the five boroughs: the FDNY released their annual report, and revealed that there were only 73 civilian fire deaths in 2009, down from 86 in 2008. more ›

According to NYPD statistics, overall subway crime dropped by 3% in 2008, with murders down to two from four in 2007. There were an average 6.3 major felonies a day last year, compared with 7.4 in 2006 (there was an average of 17 in 1997). But robberies are on the rise: 823 occurred last year, up from 796 in '07. And there were three rapes reported last year, as opposed to just one in '07. Still, the NYPD's John Hall tells the Post crime is "so low that it's getting more and more difficult to keep it there," and attributes the stats to a crackdown on people walking between moving cars, which criminals do when trolling for victims. more ›

Almost half of all accidental subway fatalities happen to riders with alcohol in their bloodstreams, according to a study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, which looked at data on subway deaths between 1990 and 2003. 145 of the 315 accidental fatalities during that time period were found to involve some degree of alcohol, though the report doesn't specify how blotto the victims were, if at all. more ›

Is the economic free fall already leading to higher crime and degentrifying neighborhoods, as previously speculated? Brooklyn's 88th precinct, which includes Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, is reporting that so far this year robberies have spiked 7.6 percent and burglaries are up 18.6 percent. And a cardboard box of bloody human remains discovered on fancy Washington Park isn't exactly putting residents at ease; one of them tells The Brooklyn Paper, “This hasn’t happened since the 1970s. Back then, I came out of my building one morning and found a body hanging from a lightpost." more ›

Not everything in Brooklyn is coming up strollers and Babelands, the Brooklyn Paper is reporting that the divorce rate in the borough has skyrocketed! Reports show that there's been a 30% rise since 2003, with uncontested divorces totaling 7,035 (nearly 2,000 more since 2004) and contested divorces up 5%. First Tea Lounge, and now this! more ›

Time to break out the subway condoms! The Health Department reported yesterday that "more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with Herpes Simplex Virus-2, the virus that causes genital herpes." For contrast, the national average for genital herpes infection is 19%. more ›

Although traffic fatalities decreased for pedestrians, drivers and their passengers in 2007, last year saw an uptick in motorcycle and bicycle deaths. The numbers announced yesterday by the mayor at a press conference in Brighton Beach add up, overall, to the lowest number of traffic deaths since the city began keeping track almost a century ago. more ›