estimated<\/a> to be Jewish.<\/p>\nScott Richman, director of the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s New York region, called the one-year jump \u201cstaggering.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom swastikas at a playground in Borough Park to a car ramming at Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights, the Jewish community in New York City is very much on edge,\u201d Richman told JNS.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the face of this, we urge Mayor Mamdani to quickly name the next head of the Mayor\u2019s Office to Combat Antisemitism and to appoint a leader who will both represent this diverse Jewish community and confront all forms of antisemitism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to NYPD statistics, there were seven anti-Muslim incidents in January in the city, compared to zero in January 2025.<\/p>\n
The 31 anti-Jewish incidents in January were much more than incidents that targeted or were related to Muslims (7), Asians (5), sexual orientation (5), religion (3), blacks (2), gender (2), age (1), Hispanics (1) and whites (1), per the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Zohran Mamdani, who has called for the city to divest from Israel Bonds and has said he would have the Israeli prime minister arrested in the Big Apple, became mayor on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n
Jessica Tisch, NYPD commissioner, stated that \u201cfor the first month of the year, the women and men of the NYPD delivered the fewest shooting incidents, victims and murders in recorded history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese results show that this department remains focused on building on the historic public safety gains made last year. Our strategy is simple: don\u2019t just get tough on crime, get smart,\u201d Tisch said. \u201cDeploy the best police officers in the nation to get it done and make New York safer.\u201d<\/p>\n
In January, NYPD recorded 47 victims in 40 shooting incidents, which was lower than what it said were all-time lows of 50 in 2025 and 56 in 2019. \u201cMurders declined to their lowest level for January, shattering the previous record of 22 set in 2018 and 2022,\u201d the department stated. \u201cManhattan and Staten Island went the entire month without a single murder.\u201d<\/p>\n
NYPD also said that retail theft was down 16% in January due to what it said was its \u201cdata-driven strategy\u201d and that \u201cschool safety zones reduced overall crime by more than 50%.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese results drove an overall decline in major crime and continued the historic reductions achieved in 2025,\u201d the NYPD said.<\/p>\n
Reported rapes (167) were much higher in January that in prior years, including 2025 (157), 2024 (106), 2023 (135), 2022 (132) and 2021 (101), per the NYPD.<\/p>\n
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