While New York’s leaders have been cheering the city’s steady decline in murder, another indicator has been giving public-safety advocates pause.
Homicides and shootings have been on a downward trajectory, but felony assaults exploded in early 2021 — and remain far above their pre-pandemic lows.
The city has seen just over 11,000 such crimes year-to-date, NYPD data show, essentially unchanged from the same period last year and up 3% versus 2024…