NYC Shootings Spike In City’s Public Housing

When shots were fired not far from Taylor Swift’s home in the trendy Tribeca neighborhood of New York City recently, it made national news. Shootings have increased across the city, and gunshots fired near the home of a celebrity was too juicy a story for the entertainment media to ignore.

Tribeca’s still a pretty safe neighborhood, though, and most of the press is staying far away from the real crime hot spots in New York City; the housing projects run by the New York City Housing Authority.

As the New York Daily News reports, the overall homicide rate in NYC at the moment is about 4 per 100,000. In the housing projects, however, the murder rate is almost four times higher, at 15.5 per 100,000.