The Big Apple is blood red.
New York City saw a spike in murders over the last year — and a more than 50 percent surge in gang violence, according to data released by City Hall on Thursday evening.
More than 350 New Yorkers lost their lives to murder in 2020 — an increase of 27 percent from last year, NYPD data included in the Mayor’s Management Report shows.
Overall, the city recorded a slight 1 percent increase in major felonies compared to 2019 — but that uptick included the jump in murders and a 20 percent rise in burglaries, or 2,176 more than last year, the report states.
Other major felonies were down, including forcible rape, which decreased by 17 percent, and grand larceny which declined by 8 percent, according to the report.
Gang-related incidents spiked by 52 percent in the 2020 fiscal year, which the NYPD attributed in part to its “capacity to more accurately identify incidents as gang related.”
Narcotics arrests continued to decrease, by 36.7 percent, “in line with the NYPD’s prioritization of felony level narcotics arrests of higher level organized distributors,” the report states.
The report doesn’t provide data on shootings specifically, though the city has been gripped by a gun-violence epidemic, with at least 1,000 cases of gunplay tallied so far since Jan. 1, according to numbers previously released by the NYPD.
Meanwhile, classrooms seemed safer, with major felonies reported there decreasing by 36 percent, though schools were shuttered in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Streets also appeared more secure than they did last year, with a 6 percent drop in pedestrian and bicyclist deaths.
Both DWI arrests and fatalities caused by drivers under the influence declined, by 33 percent and 15 percent respectively.
Officials attributed the relative calm on the roads to restrictions enacted in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
“The legislative mandates and governmental guidelines related to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in fewer vehicles on the roadways, contributing to the decline of moving violation summonses by 27 percent,” the report said.