Posted on 04/13/2013 1:17:52 PM PDT by jimbo123
Some of Manhattan’s wealthiest neighborhoods are exploding in a wave of violent crime that hearkens back to the bad old days when people feared going out at night, according to NYPD data obtained by The Post.
Chelsea, Gramercy Park, TriBeCa, SoHo and Midtown South all posted a frightening rise in rapes in the first three months of 2013 compared with the same period in 2012. Felony assaults in the usually peaceful West Village nearly tripled, the new crime statistics show.
Greenwich Village’s 6th Precinct tied the Rockaways’ grimy 100th Precinct for the city’s biggest year-to-date overall crime spike.
“We are the new 42nd Street before it was cleaned up. All of those problems came here,” lamented Robert Ziegler, 48, the co-owner of the Boots & Saddle bar on Christopher Street.
“I’ve been here for 15 years, and this last four or five years is the worst I thought I’d ever see it.
“But these past few months, it’s gotten worse.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Rudy: “Miss me yet?”
Mayor Bloooomberg...
Please pick up the White courtesy Phone!
Any connection to Bloomberg redirecting cops to fight large soda drinks?
Too bad these folks aren’t allow guns with which to defend themselves....
Well maybe, since they are wealthy, their mayor and governor will allow them to have guns...........
Couldn’t happen to a nicer group.
Too bad these folks aren’t allow guns with which to defend themselves....
Well maybe, since they are wealthy, their mayor and governor will allow them to have guns...........
Good thing all these rich Yankees can run down to their local gun shop and take steps to protect themselves and their property.
Oh...wait...Mayor Bloomberg is personally overseeing the security of all these residents and citizens.
Silly me.
Must be fun living in a leftist crime paradise.
Visiting NYC must be pretty special these day...
ObamaNation Gone Wild.
It will get worse. Obama rules.
That's how they do it in Miami.
Napolean Doomberg and Kook Cuomo voters have no one to blame but themselves. Detroit is NYC’s future. The Democrats and criminals are one in the same.
Obama says it’s good to hate rich people and make ‘em pay.
Obamazombieland!
Had my credit card cyber attacked about 3 years ago. Found about it when we went to the market and tried to charge items and the account was blocked.
Think I feel bad for these as@ holes? About time. That's what communism does to the masses.
Obama took away their ObamaPhones and told them to steal a new one from whitey.
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