Lowest Crime Rate in 40 Years - Reasons to Love New York 2006 -- New York Magazine

Because We’ve Got the Lowest Crime Rate in 40 Years (and the Lowest of Any Major U.S. City)

By Ira Boudway
Published Dec 17, 2006

While crime is down across New York, nowhere has it dropped more than in Washington Heights and Inwood, where felonies have declined by 85 percent over the last fifteen years. Here, a side-by-side comparison of major crimes in the 34th Precinct, 1990 to 2005.