As a lifelong NYC resident: the NYPost is a completely unreliable narrator when it comes to just about any city statistics.<p>Investment bank policies, written by the paranoid generationally wealthy from their out-of-city homes, are similarly unreliable.<p>Some forms of crime are up year over year- in part because NYC was deserted last year- but nearly all forms of crime on 5, 10, 20 and 30 year timeframes are way, way down.<p>My teenage girl children are free to roam around the city at nearly all hours in ways that would have been unthinkable when I was their age. It is incredible how safe NYC is.<p>There IS, however, a very sad upswing of mentally ill on the streets and subways. They may frighten tourists, but are harmless, worthy of help and pity. It is shameful that none of the pervasive enormous construction projects are going to facilitate homing them, even considering the trickle down.<p>Cheers.