Crime: Looking Back at 2025, and Ahead to 2026

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Crime: Looking Back at 2025, and Ahead to 2026

What happened in New York City and nationally, and what may and should happen next?

Vital City Feb. 19 2026

Recently Published

Of Molehills, Mountains and Snowballs

Mamdani Feb. 28 2026

Of Molehills, Mountains and Snowballs

Brandon del Pozo Feb. 28 2026

A New Mayor’s Trial By Snow

Mamdani Feb. 25 2026

A New Mayor’s Trial By Snow

John Surico Feb. 25 2026

Criminal Risk Assessment and the Character Trap

Crime Feb. 25 2026

Criminal Risk Assessment and the Character Trap

Robert J. Sampson Feb. 25 2026

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The Real Reasons New Yorkers’ Groceries Cost So Much

Housing

The Real Reasons New Yorkers’ Groceries Cost So Much

Stephen Smith Jan. 14 2026

Just Fix It: 11 Governance Improvements The Mamdani Administration Can Tackle in the First 100 Days

City Government

Just Fix It: 11 Governance Improvements The Mamdani Administration Can Tackle in the First 100 Days

Vital City Dec. 18 2025

What To Do (and Not To Do) About People in Crisis on Streets and Subways

Mental Health

What To Do (and Not To Do) About People in Crisis on Streets and Subways

Vital City Dec. 17 2025

The Journal

Crime: Looking Back at 2025, and Ahead to 2026

February 2026

Crime: Looking Back at 2025, and Ahead to 2026

What happened in New York City and nationally, and what may and should happen next?

Feb. 19 2026

Mamdani, the Morning After

November 2025

Mamdani, the Morning After

What New York's new mayor should do now

Nov. 06 2025

Housing, Housing, Housing

September 2025

Housing, Housing, Housing

How New York City can produce and preserve many more homes

Sep. 10 2025

400 Million Guns (or More)

September 2025

400 Million Guns (or More)

The supply side of America's gun problem

Sep. 10 2025

Zohran and Andrew and Eric, Oh My!

June 2025

Zohran and Andrew and Eric, Oh My!

The race for City Hall heats up.

Jun. 25 2025

Trump: 100 Days and Beyond

April 2025

Trump: 100 Days and Beyond

What impact is the administration having on cities and the people who live in them?

Apr. 29 2025

Data

Understand crime trends beyond the headlines

Dive into 30 years of data on crime complaints, shootings and arrests by borough, neighborhood and more — to understand public safety in New York beyond the headlines.

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Policy

Just Fix It: 11 Governance Improvements The Mamdani Administration Can Tackle in the First 100 Days

City Government

Just Fix It: 11 Governance Improvements The Mamdani Administration Can Tackle in the First 100 Days

Vital City Dec. 18 2025

What To Do (and Not To Do) About People in Crisis on Streets and Subways

Mental Health

What To Do (and Not To Do) About People in Crisis on Streets and Subways

Vital City Dec. 17 2025

What To Do (and Not To Do) About Subway Safety

Subway Safety

What To Do (and Not To Do) About Subway Safety

Vital City Dec. 17 2025

Subway Safety: What the Data Show

Subway Safety

Subway Safety: What the Data Show

Aaron Chalfin, John Hall, Paul Reeping Dec. 16 2025

What the Data Show

Homelessness

What the Data Show

Vital City Dec. 16 2025

How the System Works (or Doesn't)

Homelessness

How the System Works (or Doesn't)

Vital City Dec. 16 2025

Case Studies from Other Large Cities

Homelessness

Case Studies from Other Large Cities

Vital City Dec. 16 2025

What Mamdani Can Learn from a de Blasio Administration Safety Innovation

Safety

What Mamdani Can Learn from a de Blasio Administration Safety Innovation

Renita Francois, Abdul Nasser Rad Dec. 10 2025

Budget

Evaluating Mamdani's Diagnosis of New York City's Budget Deficit

Budget

Evaluating Mamdani's Diagnosis of New York City's Budget Deficit

Paul Francis Feb. 03 2026

Tax Revenue is Destiny

Economics

Tax Revenue is Destiny

Paul Francis Nov. 13 2025

Tough Budget Choices Ahead

What to Do Now

Tough Budget Choices Ahead

Carol Kellermann, Charles Brecher Nov. 06 2025

When Buses and Subways Were Free

History

When Buses and Subways Were Free

Wendell Jamieson Aug. 21 2025

Crime

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Podcast

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Culture

Evidence Over Intuition

Book Review

Evidence Over Intuition

Greg Berman Feb. 23 2026

After Hours with Jamie Rubin: Remembering a Talented, Troubled Knick

Podcast

After Hours with Jamie Rubin: Remembering a Talented, Troubled Knick

Jamie Rubin Dec. 30 2025

The Urban Optimist's Holiday Gift Guide

Culture

The Urban Optimist's Holiday Gift Guide

Vital City Dec. 02 2025

No City for Old Monuments?

What to Do Now

No City for Old Monuments?

Michele Bogart Nov. 06 2025

My First Adult Apartment

Culture

My First Adult Apartment

A Survey Sep. 17 2025

Five Years That Shaped the Modern City

Culture

Five Years That Shaped the Modern City

Neil Barsky Sep. 04 2025

Urban Infrastructure, Reexamined

Culture

Urban Infrastructure, Reexamined

Thomas Mellins Jul. 24 2025

How Small Acts Shape Great Cities

Culture

How Small Acts Shape Great Cities

Caryl Englander Jul. 24 2025

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