The fatal stabbing of three persons in broad daylight. The immolation of a woman in a subway car. The execution-style shooting death of a CEO outside a Midtown hotel.
Those high profile murders and other violent crimes had residents on edge in the year’s closing weeks. But although those grisly crimes generated headlines for days and even weeks, NYPD data revealed that major crimes dropped by nearly 3 percent in 2024, with the decrease at least in part attributable to significant year-over-year declines in December.
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