Gun Violence: New York’s Own Problem

… crime in New York is at a two-decade low.

Still, a mass shooting on July 27 at a block party in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn that left one person dead and 11 injured underscored the unsettling increase in violence in recent months, especially in parts of that borough.

How many shootings are there in New York City?

As of July 28, 521 people had been shot this year in New York City, in 441 shooting incidents, according to the police. That’s up from 501 people shot in 413 incidents in the same period a year ago.

The shootings are not spread evenly across the city. Some precincts in Queens and Manhattan have not reported any shootings this year. Others have logged quite a few.

Mr. de Blasio initially resisted calling the attack a mass shooting. (He later used the term.)

“That is basically saying mass shootings are three or more that do not take place in the African-American community,” Mr. Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough President, said in an interview on Monday.

“We’ve become numb to gun violence in certain parts of the city,” he added. “Eleven people on Park Avenue in Manhattan, it’s a mass shooting and a crisis. Eleven people shot on Park Place in Brooklyn, it’s another day in the neighborhood.”

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