If You Live With Traveling the Sidewalks Daily, Hochul’s New York Is the Problem
If You Live With Traveling the Sidewalks Daily, Hochul’s New York Is the Problem New York’s government would like you to experience the city as a chart. The chart says historic-low shootings. The chart says 305 to 309 murders in 2025, about 3.6 to 3.7 per 100,000, a hair under the national rate. The chart says safest big city. Repeat it from Albany and City Hall often enough, and the person who locked the toothpaste, skipped a late train, or watched a fight on a platform is supposed to apologize for noticing. That is not public safety. That is a press operation. People do not live in per-capita rates. They live in density. They live in a closed subway car they cannot step off. They live on sidewalks where disorder is not a rare tragedy. It is the weather. Felony assaults in New York City were about 29,800 in 2025 — roughly 97 for every murder — and still about 44 percent above 2019. The city’s violent-crime rate has sat in the mid-600s per 100,000 against a national figure in...