Hate crimes in New York City climbed sharply over the past year, driven largely by antisemitic incidents targeting Jewish residents, even as the NYPD reported what it described as the safest summer in the city’s recorded history.
Newly released NYPD figures, arriving just weeks before the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, show overall hate crimes rose 15.8%, increasing to 425 in 2026 from 367 in 2025.
Anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 8% and made up more than half of all confirmed bias incidents during the first eight months of the year, despite Jewish New Yorkers representing roughly 10% of the city’s population.
The troubling increase has included violent attacks, such as the July stabbing of a Jewish man outside an Upper West Side synagogue, underscoring a stark contrast with broader crime trends that officials say are moving in a safer direction.
Between June 1 and August 31, New York City recorded the lowest number of shooting incidents, shooting victims and murders for that summer period since such records have been kept, according to the NYPD.
Police said 195 shootings were reported over the summer, a drop of 32 from the previous record low of 227 set last year.
The city also recorded 249 shooting victims, 44 fewer than the prior record low of 293 set in 2018, along with 66 murders, down 12 from the previous summer-period record low of 78 set in 2017.
