New York Travelogue 2023 — Part Two
<p>When you look at the data, such as <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2022.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">year-by-year statistics of the most harmful crimes</a>, you learn the streets of New York have actually become much safer since 2000. While Trump, brutish heir to the king of outer borough apartment projects, repeats his pet line about American carnage to cheers from the millions of marks still gullible enough to vote for him, that ultimate symbol of urban blight, the South Bronx, has been sprouting new residential and commercial towers. And back in the late 1970s, before I moved to California, I could have committed suicide by goon anytime I wanted by walking into the Lower Manhattan neighborhood my mother grew up in, whereas on this trip, as a graybearded stranger presenting little threat to anyone wanting my wallet, I strolled the breadth of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_City,_Manhattan" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Alphabet City</a> to Mom’s childhood apartment unmolested.</p>
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