The city is still a very dangerous place (Picture: Getty Images)

Rudy Giuliani did so much to help New York City move on from the days when fear and crime ruled.

Manhattan is a much safer place now than it was a decade ago — but there’s still a lot of work to be done, judging by these maps.

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The New York Police Department (NYPD) crime locators reveal the most dangerous parts of the city.

The department offers three choices of map: precinct, crime location and heat. All show where cops received reports of crime across Manhattan.


This dense, blue map below shows the concentration of crime from August 2016 to August 2017. The bigger the circle, the larger the number of reports.

Crime locator August 2016 to August 2017 (Picture: NYPD)

Distribution of incidents is also shown in this heat map. You can see the huge swath of crime that encases Central Park.

Heat map of NYC crime from August 2016 to August 2017 (Picture: NYPD)

Manhattan South Precinct dealt with the majority of incidents in this time frame.

Manhattan South Precinct has dealt with a huge number of crimes (Picture: NYPD)

This is consistent with the entire month of August 2017.

The south precinct saw the biggest number of reported crimes in August this year (Picture: NYPD)

From these stats, it looks as though Mid Town is one of the most crime-ridden places in NYC.

Crime locator stats from August 2017 (Picture: NYPD)

The Empire State Building lies within the precinct, and it’s not too far away from Trump Tower.

Crime heat map for August 2017 (Picture: NYPD)

NYC crimes year to date Murder: 195

195 Rape: 1,018

1,018 Robbery: 10,001

10,001 Felony assault: 14,854

14,854 Grand larceny: 30,992

30,992 Grand Larceny auto: 4,111

4,111 Shooting victims: 701

701 Petit larceny: 60,584

60,584 Assault: 30,679

30,679 Sex crimes: 2,636

Manhattan underwent a huge purge of crime in the 1990s and is arguably one of the greatest turnarounds of its kind.



Instrumental in its cleanup was Rudy Giuliani. The mayor gave residents a clear idea of the city they deserved to live in, and handed police the power to transform it.

Years of zero-tolerance saw Manhattan reclaim its public spaces: subways became safer and parks were no longer seen as an open drugs market.