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C E N T E R F O R S T A T E A N D L O C A L L E A D E R S H I PA T T H E M A N H A T T A N I N S T I T U T E
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POVERTY AND PROGRESS IN NEW YORK II:
Crime, Welfare Enrollment, and Economic Conditions Six Months into
the de Blasio Administration
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Stephen EideSenior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Cover image: New York City Subway Map © Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Used with permission.
Poverty and Progress in New York II
exeCutive SummaRy
New York City’s resurgence over the past three decades has been characterized by greater fiscal stability, less crime, less
dependence on cash welfare, and sustained economic growth. In many ways, these gains have been shared across all
neighborhoods, rich and poor alike. However, because income gains, measured proportionately, have accrued more
greatly to affluent households, Mayor Bill de Blasio has asserted that New York has become a “tale of two cities”—and
has pledged to improve incomes and quality of life for the least well-off.
This paper, the second installment in the Manhattan Institute’s Poverty and Progress in New York series, seeks to gauge
the extent to which the Mayor’s policies are improving conditions in the city’s poorest neighborhoods.
Neighborhoods examined are: Mott Haven and Hunts Point (Bronx Community Districts 1 and 2); Brownsville, Coney
Island, and East New York (Brooklyn Community Districts 16, 13, and 5); East Harlem and Central Harlem (Manhattan
Community Districts 11 and 10); Elmhurst and Jackson Heights (Queens Community Districts 4 and 3); and Stapleton
(Staten Island Community District 1).
Key Findings
• Sixmonths into thedeBlasioadministration,manycategoriesof crimearedown,but shootingsareup8
percent. It is unknown whether the latter indicates a temporary aberration—or is a sign that New York City’s
decades-long crime decline has plateaued or reversed course.
• Inalltheprecinctsdrivingtheincreaseinshootings,theusageof“stop,question,andfrisk”isdowndramatically,
by as much as 99 percent on a year-over-year basis. The police department has been able, in past years, to drive
crime down while also relying less on this tactic. However, the possibility of a correlation between fewer stops and
more crime merits close scrutiny; the recent drop in stops—from the last year of the Bloomberg administration
and the first year of the de Blasio administration—is much more dramatic than previous years’ declines.
• Thecitywideshootinguptickreflectsnotonlycertainprecinctsbecomingmoredangerousbutalsootherprecincts
not becoming significantly safer.
• Fouroutofthetenpoorestneighborhoodsinthefiveboroughssawshootingsincrease,accountingforafull
three-quarters of the increase citywide.
• Forthefirstsixmonthsof2014,welfareenrollmentisgenerallydown,bothcitywideandinthetenpoorest
neighborhoods in the five boroughs. This goes for all three major programs: Cash Assistance, Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Medicaid.
• IntheBronx,thecity’spoorestborough,unemploymentisdownwhilejobgrowthandpermittingactivityare
up, compared with the first six months of Mayor Bloomberg’s final year in office.
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about the authoR
Stephen D. Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership. He edits
PublicSectorInc.org (@PubSectorInc), a project of the Manhattan Institute, and is also a contributor to the site. His
work focuses on public administration, public finance, political theory, and urban policy. He was previously a senior
research associate at the Worcester Regional Research Bureau, and holds a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College
inSantaFe,N.M.,andaPh.D.inpoliticalphilosophyfromBoston College.
Poverty and Progress in New York II
Introduction
Crime
Welfare Enrollment
Economic Conditions
Conclusion
Endnotes
CONTENTS1
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Poverty and Progress in New York II
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INTRODUCTION
Poverty and Progress in New York II provides an early assess-ment of how much progress Mayor Bill de Blasio has made on his pledge to “end the tale of two cities.” It examines crime, welfare enrollment, and economic conditions in the poorest
neighborhoods in the five boroughs.
CRIME
In the first half of 2014, murders and crime overall are down citywide, but shootings are up (Figure 1). The New York Police Department (NYPD) claims that the uptick in shootings, at this early stage, should not be cause for alarm.1 Mayor
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poveRty and pRogReSS in new yoRk ii: CRime, welfaRe
enRollment, and eConomiC ConditionS
Six monthS into the de blaSio adminiStRation
% Change, Year to Date (2013–14)
Murder -10.5%
Rape -9.9%
Robbery -11.1%
Felony Assault 1.4%
Burglary 4.8%
Total Crimes -2.9%
Shooting Victims 10.3%
Shooting Incidents 8.1%
Figure 1: Crime in New York City, January–June 2014
Source: NYPD (through June 29, 2014)
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Figure 2: Stops and Murders, 2002–2013
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The possibility that shootings, in particular, have in-creased because of fewer stops is an especially serious charge, given that the tactic removed thousands of guns off the streets, including some used in crimes. Only 397 guns were recovered last year, compared with 819 in 2011, according to the NYPD and New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). Crit-ics of stop and frisk point out that restrictions on
Bloomberg saw murders rise four times, including during his first year in office,2 despite declining to record lows by the end of his third term. Annual shootings increased five times under Bloomberg.3
Questions have also been raised about whether the recent shooting spike was caused by restrictions placed on the NYPD’s use of the “stop, question, and frisk” tactic.4 At one point the NYPD claimed to be investigating this question,5 but more recently it said that there is “almost no direct correlation.”6 For years, stop, question, and frisk was central to the NYPD’s proactive policing strategy, which focused on preventing crimes before they occurred. Usage grew dramatically over the last decade, peaking in 2011 (Figure 2), before beginning to decline during the final Bloomberg years.
Shootings Stops
Precinct January–June, 2014
January–June, 2013
# change % change January–June, 2014
January–June, 2013
# change % change
69 (Canarsie) 21 6 15 250% 19 2,260 -2,241 -99%
47 (Northeast Bronx) 29 14 15 107% 76 1,106 -1,030 -93%
75 (East New York) 33 24 9 38% 84 2,247 -2,163 -96%
67 (East Flatbush) 31 23 8 35% 277 2,093 -1,816 -87%
25 (East Harlem) 9 2 7 350% 128 267 -139 -52%
46 (Morris Heights) 23 16 7 44% 145 546 -401 -73%
City 521 482 39 8% 27,497 157,876 -130,379 -83%
Source: NYPD and NYCLU.org
Figure 3: Change in Stops among Precincts with Significant Shooting Rate Increases, January–June, 2013 v. 2014
Source: NYPD and NYCLU.org
# Change % Change
2011–12 -152,813 -22%
2012–13 -341,060 -64%
January–June 2013 v. January–June 2014 -130,379 -83%
Figure 4: Annual Decline in Stops, 2011–14
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the tactic did not prevent the NYPD from driving down crime in both 2011–12 and 2012–13.7 In 2013, there were 335 murders, the fewest since the early 1960s. (Murders, unlike shootings, are down in 2014, too.)
At the same time, all the precincts contributing most to the city’s higher shooting rate have seen sig-nificant drops in stops (Figure 3).
It should also be noted that, expressed as a percent-age, the recent decline in stop, question, and frisk (2013–14) has been much more dramatic than the decline during the end of Mayor Bloomberg’s term (Figure 4). Just because a 25 percent decline in stops failed to cause crime to rise does not mean that the 83 percent decrease from last year to this year will have no harmful effects. It is also conceiv-able that crime could have fallen further were stop, question, and frisk not curtailed.
The uptick in shootings should be understood as reflecting both a rise in certain areas and insuf-ficient decline in others. Throughout New York’s long crime decline, good news citywide frequent-ly masked precinct-level spikes, as stats reflecting increased crime in certain precincts were out-weighed by even greater decreases elsewhere. Such offsetting precincts were often high-crime areas; crime numbers in safe areas were too low to exert much pull on the overall stats. For example, in 2002, murders in Precinct 47 in the north Bronx (one of 2014’s problem precincts) rose 41 percent over the previous year (17 to 24). But murders declined 36 percent (22 to 14) in Precinct 32 in Harlem and 39 percent (26 to 16) in Browns-ville. As a consequence of these and other paral-lel changes, murders in 2002 fell 10 percent city-wide. Such countervailing pressure is absent, for shootings, in 2014.
Public safety poses a special challenge for the de Blasio administration, in light of its professed com-mitment to “end the tale of two cities.” Many of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, said to have been left behind during New York City’s revival over the last two decades, rank among its most dangerous.
Figures 5 and 6 show the ten poorest community districts in the five boroughs and their year-to-date crime changes. Four out of the ten saw an increase in shooting incidents, accounting for three-quar-ters (29 of 39) of the citywide increase in the first half of 2014.
WELFARE ENROLLMENT
During his mayoral campaign, then-candidate Bill de Blasio pledged, if elected, to “work relentlessly to expand enrollment for eligible households to income and food assistance programs, reduce bu-reaucratic barriers, and advocate for expanded support from the state and federal government.”8 Since taking office, Human Resources Adminis-tration (HRA) commissioner Steven Banks has waived federal work requirements for the Supple-mental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in order to “maximize[e] access” and stimulate the local economy.9 He has also worked to reduce bu-reaucratic obstacles that, he claims, prevent cash assistance from reaching qualifying individuals as “expeditiously” as possible, ramped up outreach efforts, and made it official HRA policy that wel-fare recipients may count enrollment in a four-year college program toward meeting their work requirements.10
The de Blasio administration does not advocate or envision a net increase in cash assistance enroll-ment, projecting a 12,000 decrease in monthly en-rollment, on average, for fiscal year 2015.11 HRA has launched a “comprehensive review of all policies and procedures” to “enable New Yorkers to remain off of the Cash Assistance caseload.” Banks has said that whatever growth may result from easier access to benefits will be offset by “more effective employ-ment programs that lead to stable jobs.”
In other words, despite reversing course from the Bloomberg administration’s approach to welfare, de Blasio seems not to expect enrollment numbers to trend differently. So far, this has been the case. In the first six months of 2014, citywide and in the poorest neighborhoods in the five boroughs, enrollment was generally down in all three of the city’s major social
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Murders Shooting Incidents
Community district Median household
income
Precinct(s) January–June 2014
January–June 2013
# Change % Change January–June 2014
January–June 2013
# Change % Change
Bronx #1 (Mott Haven)
$20,867 40 2 6 -4 -67% 19 15 4 27%
Bronx #2 (Hunts Point)
$20,867 41 0 1 -1 -100% 5 6 -1 -17%
Brooklyn #16 (Brownsville, Ocean Hill)
$27,166 73 8 6 2 33% 38 32 6 19%
Brooklyn #13 (Coney Island)
$29,712 60 4 5 -1 -20% 9 13 -4 -31%
Brooklyn #5 (East New York)
$31,986 75 7 6 1 17% 33 24 9 38%
Manhattan #11 (East Harlem)
$31,079 25 and 23 4 3 1 33% 17 7 10 143%
Manhattan #10 (Central Harlem)
$36,112 28and32 3 3 0 0% 11 17 -6 -35%
Queens #4 (Elmhurst, Corona)
$44,412 110 2 2 0 0% 0 2 -2 -100%
Queens #3 (Jackson Heights)
$46,119 115 2 2 0 0% 1 4 -3 -75%
Staten Island #1 (Stapleton)
$57,283 120 4 2 2 100% 10 11 -1 -9%
Source: NYPD
Figure 5: Change in Murders and Shootings, Poorest Neighborhoods in the Five Boroughs, 2013–14
Total Crime
Community district Median household
income
Precinct(s) January–June 2014
January–June 2013
# Change % Change
Bronx #1 (Mott Haven)
$20,867 40 731 864 -133 -15%
Bronx #2 (Hunts Point)
$20,867 41 822 752 70 9%
Brooklyn #16 (Brownsville, Ocean Hill)
$27,166 73 856 914 -58 -6%
Brooklyn #13 (Coney Island)
$29,712 60 630 605 25 4%
Brooklyn #5 (East New York)
$31,986 75 1776 1763 13 1%
Manhattan #11 (East Harlem)
$31,079 25 and 23 959 979 -20 -2%
Manhattan #10 (Central Harlem)
$36,112 28and32 935 980 -45 -5%
Queens #4 (Elmhurst, Corona)
$44,412 110 759 806 -47 -6%
Queens #3 (Jackson Heights)
$46,119 115 883 824 59 7%
Staten Island #1 (Stapleton)
$57,283 120 550 544 6 1%
Source: NYPD; “Total Crime” includes murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto
Figure 6: Change in Total Crime, Poorest Neighborhoods in the Five Boroughs, 2013–14
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welfare programs: Medicaid, SNAP, and Cash As-sistance (Figure 7, Figure 8, and Figure 9). ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
The Bronx is New York City’s poorest borough.12 Its job numbers and property values have grown over recent decades but at rates slower than the other boroughs (Figure 10 and Figure 11). Despite the Bronx’s density and proximity to Manhattan, gentrification has been slower to ar-rive than to Harlem and parts of Brooklyn. How-ever, that could be changing. A recent report by Ariel Property Advisors found that, during the first half of 2014, the South Bronx accounted for
Community District
January June #Change %Change
Bronx 1 58,827 54,965 -3,862 -6.6%
Bronx 2 30,795 28,553 -2,242 -7.3%
Brooklyn 5 92,189 85,221 -6,968 -7.6%
Brooklyn 13 48,892 46,595 -2,297 -4.7%
Brooklyn 16 47,254 43,879 -3,375 -7.1%
Manhattan 10 46,971 43,360 -3,611 -7.7%
Manhattan 11 55,550 52,224 -3,326 -6.0%
Queens 3 74,528 68,615 -5,913 -7.9%
Queens 4 78,804 73,073 -5,731 -7.3%
Staten Island 1 55,628 51,613 -4,015 -7.2%
City 2,932,388 2,715,330 -217,058 -7.4%
Source: Human Resources Administration (HRA)
Community District
January June #Change %Change
Bronx 1 44,715 43,441 -1,274 -2.8%
Bronx 2 22,823 22,125 -698 -3.1%
Brooklyn 5 65,556 61,274 -4,282 -6.5%
Brooklyn 13 31,177 30,232 -945 -3.0%
Brooklyn 16 37,136 35,045 -2,091 -5.6%
Manhattan 10 34,764 33,824 -940 -2.7%
Manhattan 11 42,043 41,027 -1,016 -2.4%
Queens 3 30,973 29,150 -1,823 -5.9%
Queens 4 30,683 28,804 -1,879 -6.1%
Staten Island 1 37,668 36,184 -1,484 -3.9%
City 1,678,819 1,614,766 -64,053 -3.8%
Figure 8: SNAP Enrollment, January–June 2014
Source: HRA
Community District
January June #Change %Change
Bronx 1 11,503 11,337 -166 -1.4%
Bronx 2 6,555 6,481 -74 -1.1%
Brooklyn 5 14,538 14,290 -248 -1.7%
Brooklyn 13 3,875 3,900 25 0.6%
Brooklyn 16 11,008 10,790 -218 -2.0%
Manhattan 10 7,638 7,642 4 0.1%
Manhattan 11 8,709 8,595 -114 -1.3%
Queens 3 3,210 2,997 -213 -6.6%
Queens 4 2,749 2,687 -62 -2.3%
Staten Island 1 9,533 9,127 -406 -4.3%
City 321,963 312,480 -9,483 -2.9%
Source: HRA
Figure 7: Medicaid Enrollment, January–June 2014
Figure 9: Cash Assistance Enrollment, January–June 2014
17.7% 19.2% 19.3% 21.0%
33.7%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
Bronx Queens Brooklyn Manha�an Staten Island
Source: New York State Department of Labor (NYS DOL)
Figure 10: Job Growth by Borough, 1990-2014
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nearly half of the borough’s real-estate transac-tions (124 properties, $480 million). The Bronx also has 1.6 million square feet of retail devel-opment planned or under construction.13 The number of new building permits issued through-out the first six months of the year has been grad-
ually on the rise, too (Figure 12). Under Mayor de Blasio, economic conditions in the Bronx continued to trend positive, showing improvements over this period last year (Figure 13, Figure 14, and Figure 15).
10.0
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January February March April May June
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Source: NYS DOL; data are not seasonally-adjusted
Figure 13: Bronx County, Jobs, and Unemployment Rate, January–June 2014
Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island
1994 $21,735 $115,686 $78,905 $61,920 $22,038
2004 $31,636 $167,675 $127,371 $101,293 $38,703
2014 $53,648 $339,531 $206,783 $200,326 $57,815
Change, 1994–2014 147% 193% 162% 224% 162%
Figure 11: Total Market Value by Borough, 1994–2014 (millions)
Source:NewYorkCityDepartmentofFinance
4,8005,0005,2005,4005,6005,8006,0006,2006,4006,600
Jan-Jun 2009 Jan-Jun 2010 Jan-Jun 2011 Jan-Jun 2012 Jan-Jun 2013 Jan-Jun 2014
New
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sued
Source: New York City Department of Buildings
Figure 12: January–June Building Permit Issuance in the Bronx, 2009–2014
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480,000
485,000
490,000
495,000
500,000
505,000
510,000
January February March April May June
Job
s
2014 Jobs 2013 Jobs
Source: NYS DOL
Figure 14: Bronx County Jobs, January–June 2013 v. January–June 2014
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Source: NYS DOL; data are not seasonally-adjusted
Figure 15: Bronx County Unemployment Rate, January 2013 v. January 2014
CONCLUSION
Conditions under the de Blasio administration, after its first six months, appear broadly similar to those inherited under the Bloomberg administra-tion. Judged simply on the raw data on crime, wel-fare, and economic conditions, it would be impos-sible to determine which mayor was in power.
Stated differently, if the de Blasio administration has sought to improve life in New York’s poor neighbor-
hoods—whether measured by income, public safe-ty, education, or other metrics—it has yet to show progress. The administration has, however, initiated a number of key new policies regarding, in particu-lar, eligibility for public assistance, housing, and ed-ucation. In future installments, this series will track the extent to which such policies are reflected in the critical socio-economic indicators under scrutiny.
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endnoteS
1 Azi Paybarah, “Bratton on the NYPD’s ‘Summer All Out’ program,” Capital New York, July 7, 2014. Police Commissioner
Bratton: “So far this year, there has been an increase in the number of shooting incidents but I’d point out, going back
to 1993, the overall trend is down and I would anticipate, based on that experience, that going forward in this year
we would continue to see a decrease.... I do not anticipate at the end of the year to have an increase, but if we do I
don’t think it’s going to be so significant as to be of concern or that the sky is falling or that the good old bad days are
coming back again.... This is an incredibly safe city and remains so. I know there’s a lot of attention paid to the increase
in shootings—that the city’s in crisis ... [that] this is starting to get out of control. Not at all... This is nothing new. As
you can see, in years past we’ve had years homicides went up, years when shootings went up. The city didn’t fall
apart. It wasn’t the end of the world. We addressed it and the next year it went down.... So, my anticipation is that the
continuing overall crime decline in the city will continue.”22002–03,2005–06,2007–08,2009–10.32004-05,2005–06,2007–08,2009–10,2010–11.4 “New Yorkers deserve to live in a safe city. The rash of gun violence this weekend, leaving three dead and many others
wounded, should serve as a wake-up call to Mayor de Blasio and his administration.... These shootings contradict
two decades of crime reduction in our city and make the strongest case for bringing back stop, question, and frisk.”
CouncilmemberEricUlrich,quotedinLenLevitt,“WorriedAboutCrime?JustFollowtheNumbers,”am New York, July
7,2014.“Stop-and-FriskandRisk,”New York Daily News, August 16, 2014. Will Bredderman, “Jumaane Williams to
Media:Don’tLinkStop-and-FrisktoShootingSpike,”New York Observer, June 30, 2014. Thomas Repetto: “We don’t
have a citywide epidemic like we did 20 years ago, but we’re having problems in pockets of the city such as the housing
projects.... I want to hear a firm declaration that proactive policing will be employed.... Proactive policing means stop
the criminal before he can commit a crime.” Tina Moore, “Homicides Are Down, but Shootings Are Up Citywide over
2013,” New York Daily News, June 9, 2014. State Sen. Martin Golden: “Thank God these guys are bad shots and thank
God for our trauma rooms that keep these [victims] alive. If we don’t do stop-and-frisk, there will be more shootings
andtherewillbemoredeath.”DanaSauchelli,FrankRosario,andBruceGolding,“15PeopleShotinLessthan12
hours in NYC,” New York Post, June 29, 2014.5PervaizShallwani,“NYPDStudiesFrisk-DeclineConsequences,”Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2014.6 Yoni Bashan, “Bratton Says Gun Violence Remains Low,” Wall Street Journal,August18,2014.7“Stop-and-FriskDuringtheBloombergAdministration(2002–2013),”NewYorkCivilLibertiesUnion,August2014.8 “One New York, Rising Together,” Bill de Blasio for Mayor, July 2013, p. 45. 9“AccordingtotheUSDepartmentofAgriculture,every$1ofSNAPassistancecreates$1.80ofeconomicactivity.”
“HumanResourcesAdministrationCommissionerBanksAnnouncesReformstoFightPovertyandHunger,Prevent
Homelessness, Improve Access to Employment, Reduce Unnecessary Bureaucracy, Address Staff Workload, and Avoid
FinancialPenaltiesfortheCity,”pressrelease,NewYorkCityHumanResourcesAdministration,May19,2014.10“StevenBanksTestimony,2015ExecutiveBudgetHearingJointHearingoftheNewYorkCityCouncilFinanceand
General Welfare Committees,” May 19, 2014, pp. 4–5. 11 “In 2015, 350,297 persons are projected to receive cash assistance on average each month, a decrease of 12,157
fromtheprojected2014average.”“TheCityofNewYorkExecutiveBudgetFiscalYear2015,”OfficeofManagement
andBudget,May8,2014,p.224.12 On median household income in the five boroughs, see “Poverty and Progress in New York I: Conditions in New York
City’sPoorestNeighborhoods,”ManhattanInstitute,CivicReportno.88(June2014),table4.13 “Bronx 2014 Mid-Year Sales Report,” Ariel Property Advisors, July 2014.
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