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I'm probably overreacting to this. In reading about J.B.Hehman's (TLOZ Link5) death, and how there had been a rash of robberies in a part of Harlem undergoing gentrification and the like, I'm wondering if New York is seeing a wider trend, wider than just this one incident. If city-wide crime is going up, it should not be surprising, as crime is going up in most big cities. What has been remarkable in this decade, given the country's economic state and NYC's post-9/11 economy, is that NYC did not revert back to the "bad old days," where from the mid 1970's to early 1990's, where it was infected and infested with crime and racial tension. Although for most of my life I do not have a palpable memory of what it was like in New York at this time (I'm only two years younger than TLOZ) there is no way in hell that I would ever want to live in or travel to a New York that was like the '70s-early '90s NYC, despite how some bemoan the city for being "sanitized" today. Even if the overall crime-rate in NY is not climbing, is it possible that it's climbing in select areas?