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New York City’s Other Violent Crime Problem

New York City’s Other Violent Crime Problem

Murder is down, but assault is up—a dangerous sign.

New York’s leaders have been rightly celebrating the city’s major reductions in murder and gun violence. But the city still struggles with a different violent crime problem: record-high assault rates. The causes are difficult to parse from the data alone, but the trend bodes poorly for long-term safety and stability.

Start with the good news. The city saw 309 murders last year, according to NYPD’s crime statistics. That’s the lowest figure since 2018, and a 36 percent decrease from the recent peak in 2021. Shootings stand “at their lowest level since consistent records began in 1993,” the New York–focused publication Vital City noted in a recent brief. The city managed at least one shooting-free day per week, on average, last year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, New York City

New York State Is Headed for a Decade of Population Decline

The net outflow of New Yorkers to other states has topped the 1 million mark since 2020, while the flow of migrants into the Empire State from other countries was even larger than originally estimated during that same period, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

But New York was also hit hard by what the Census Bureau calls a “historic decline in net international migration”—meaning far fewer immigrants arriving from abroad—over the 12 months from July 2024 through June 2025. With New Yorkers continuing to leave the state at a steady pace, a modest two-year rebound in the Empire State’s population came to a halt—with all signs pointing to renewed decline in the second half of this decade.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography, New York City

A Look Back at New York City’s First Flirtation with Socialism

Before Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America, there were Vito Marcantonio and the American Labor Party.

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s 112th mayor and a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has shown no signs of wavering in his commitment to socialism. In his inaugural address, he proudly proclaimed that he would “govern as a democratic socialist.” Mamdani’s win follows other recent Big Apple victories for DSA members and DSA-friendly politicians, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and State Senator Julia Salazar.

This isn’t New York City’s first dance with socialists. Though few readers may remember Vito Marcantonio and the American Labor Party, they were—like Mamdani and the DSA today—a force to be reckoned with in 1930s and 1940s New York.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCommunism, Communists, New York City

Zohran Mamdani’s victory should terrify the Democrats

There was no defeat to be snatched from the jaws of victory.

The man who shockingly secured the Democratic nomination in June has un-shockingly won the election. Zohran Mamdani, the dimpled, wise-cracking democratic socialist, will become mayor of New York, America’s most populous city.

For those with a taste for 11th-hour upsets in politics, there was little reason to anticipate a surprise. The Mamdani campaign carried the momentum from its primary battle, drawing the highest turnout in a New York mayoral race since the 1960s.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNew York City

The Mamdani Line People Are Calling ‘One of the Most Horrifying Quotes’ Spoken by a Politician

Earlier, we told you about Zohran Mamdani’s doomed promise to make groceries “cheaper” for New Yorkers. As we explained, Mamdani will use government tax dollars to subsidize subpar food at “public” grocery stores and this move will force other grocers to compete, lead to empty shelves, and eventually food rationing.

Zohran should partner with Grocery Magnate Avi Lewis!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNew York City

Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City Mayoral Election in Historic Run for Gracie Mansion

…Mr. Mamdani won four of the city’s five boroughs — all except Staten Island — with either a majority or a plurality of the vote. Decision Desk HQ predicted that Mr. Mamdani had won the race just 30 minutes after polls closed on Tuesday. CNN and NBC News projected the same outcome shortly thereafter.

According to an exit poll from CNN, Mr. Mamdani struggled with non-college educated and Jewish voters in the city. That survey found that 42 percent of voters with no college degree backed Mr. Cuomo compared to 38 percent who supported Mr. Mamdani. Among Jewish voters, Mr. Cuomo prevailed by a two-to-one margin, with 60 percent backing the ex-governor and 31 percent supporting Mr. Mamdani.

7 Takeaways From a Stunning New York City Mayoral Election

Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker, was elected New York’s 111th mayor on Tuesday, riding a historic surge of enthusiasm as the nation’s largest city embraced generational and ideological change.

The Associated Press called the race just 35 minutes after polls closed, cementing a stunning upset that took root in June’s Democratic primary. Then and now, Mr. Mamdani handily dispatched former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the scion of a New York dynasty, and the big-money super PACs backing him.

Multicult gets you Chows and Mamdanis

New York’s Desi voters are flexing power — and Zohran Mamdani wooed them hard

Zohran Mamdani owes his spectacular political rise to one New York City demographic above all others: South Asians.

And while they make up only 5% of the city’s population, this rapidly growing ethnic group is making itself heard.

South Asian turnout in June’s Democratic primary increased by 40% compared to 2021

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNew York City

New York Reruns: What Mamdani Means for New York

As the world waits for New York’s first Islamo-Communist mayor—hailed alike by the overtly malicious and the terminally stupefied—it may be worth stepping back to ask what the advent of Zohran Mamdani, the pampered 34-year-old rich kid who was born in Uganda, tells us about the decay of liberalism.

In many ways, Mamdani—who, as I write this, is a comfortable 10-15 points ahead in the polls—is just the latest avatar of the AOC-Ilhan Omar wing of the Democratic party. He loves talking about (re)distributing the wealth of others, defunding the police, arresting Benjamin Netanyahu, and penalizing “landlords,” which last is just one of his many code words for Jews.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's 5th Column, Islamization of the West, New York City

London’s sad decline is a warning to New Yorkers

In three terms as mayor, Sadiq Khan has crushed the economic life out of Britain’s capital.

Once there was NyLon — a conflation of New York and London, the glamorous power couple of urban planning. A couple of decades ago, their intertwined finance- and media-driven economies were the mega-hubs of the Atlantic. But you don’t hear very much about that anymore. In fact, London’s economy has gone into a sad decline. And as New York prepares to elect a left-wing mayor, perhaps voters there should reflect on London’s lessons — because their city could easily be going the same way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inLondon, New York City

Who won the first NYC mayoral debate?

Socialist upstart candidate Zohran Mamdani entered the first general mayoral election debate as the front-runner and left the same way — despite some strong performances from his rivals, a Post panel of political experts said.

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa “did what they needed to do” Thursday by repeatedly hitting the Democratic candidate on tough issues like Israel, his past calls to defund the police and his lack of experience.

OH! OH!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNew York City, WTF?

New York: The City That Sleeps

Establishments that used to be open 24/7 now close early. Why?

On a recent Sunday evening, Imad Khachan encountered a problem once unthinkable in New York City. “I had a friend and his wife visiting from overseas,” says Khachan, the owner of Chess Forum, Greenwich Village’s last remaining chess shop. “They stopped by and said, ‘We’d like to go have dinner around nine o’clock.’ . . . I understand it was Sunday, but we really were hard-pressed to find a place that opened till 10 o’clock, let alone 24 hours. I couldn’t tell them where we [should] go. I felt so embarrassed.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNew York City

When the Guns Go, So Does Gotham: Mamdani’s Dangerous Dream

The Democratic (read: communist) frontrunner in New York City’s mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, has made clear his intention to strip citizens of the right to armed self-defense—a position more radical than that of the Soviet Union.

While his proposals to abolish private property and his leniency toward criminal behavior are well known, one of the most chilling elements of his platform is captured in a simple declaration: “We need to ban all guns.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights, New York City

Why millionaires are planning to escape from New York

The socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the mayoral primary has prompted some of the wealthiest New Yorkers to seriously consider leaving the city

The morning after Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Tom O’Donoghue’s phone was ringing off the hook.

O’Donoghue, who runs a luxury construction firm in the Hamptons — the summer playground for rich New Yorkers — said his clients were in “complete disbelief” that a socialist was suddenly the favourite to win November’s general election.

“One of my clients has 150 commercial buildings in the city and he just told me that he had contacted his attorney this morning. They’re getting out of New York,” he said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", New York City

Zohran Mamdani victory in NYC mayoral primary is ‘political earthquake’ for the Democratic Party

Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory over three-term ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral primary is a “political earthquake” that will pressure the national Democratic Party to move further left, political analysts told The Post.

Dems who got trounced by President Trump and the GOP last year will have to pay more attention to the views of progressive, younger voters who propelled Mamdani’s candidacy — as well as struggling working-class voters — as they prepare for midterm congressional elections, strategists, pollsters and union leaders said.

My guess is that people have not lost their disdain for Cuomo’s corruption and that NYC’s demographic is now 3rd world.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNew York City

Ditching NYC insane ‘sanctuary’ laws requires an all-hands war with the local hard left

Great news: Mayor Adams and Trump border czar-designate Tom Homan seemed to reach a real meeting of minds in Thursday’s sitdown.

But can they get the City Council and Gov. Hochul on board with the effort to free Gotham of thousands of “known offender” criminal illegal migrants?

Adams has now embraced Queens Councilman Robert Holden’s call to reopen the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at Rikers — but city law says no resources can go to assist ICE and bars NYPD and jail officials from reporting any wrongdoers to the feds.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inNew York City, Sanctuary Cities

Mysterious drones shut down runways of NY airport, causing Hochul to demand feds step in: ‘Gone too far’

The mysterious drones that have been plaguing the skies over the Northeast shut down the runways of Stewart International Airport Friday night, prompting Gov. Hochul to demand the feds step in.

“This has gone too far,” Hochul said in a terse statement Saturday, in which she noted the runway of the Orange County facility was shut down for an hour because of the unidentified aircraft.

Stewart Airport services both commercial and military flights and is adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inDrones, New York City