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Experts and the Magic 8-Ball agree: either oil goes up or gold goes down, or both. More analysis soon.

Interactive map: https://SafeAreasNYC.com

The map is based on official NYPD data for the most recent year available.

Here are the key differences from many other maps you’ll find online, including the official NYPD map:

1. The map includes only those criminal incidents that can reasonably be classified as street‑level crime — the types of offenses that matter to residents and visitors.
2. Encountering 10 pickpocketing incidents is not the same as encountering 10 violent assaults. To reflect this, I introduced a severity weighting system from 1 to 10.
3. Criminal activity doesn’t follow administrative boundaries. Instead of using neighborhoods or precincts, I divided the entire city into a uniform 0.3 × 0.3 mile grid (walkable scale). For each grid cell, the crime index is calculated as the number of police‑reported incidents multiplied by their severity weight.
4. The map uses two levels of visualization depending on zoom: aggregated grid cells are always visible, and when you zoom in, you can see individual incident points filtered by crime type.