LOWER MANHATTAN — Neighborhoods across Lower Manhattan were free of gun violence and murder in 2016, police said.
In Manhattan's 1st Precinct — which covers the Financial District, TriBeCa, Battery Park City, the South Street Seaport, Hudson Square and SoHo — there were no shootings or murder throughout last year, or this year, so far, said the precinct's commanding officer, Mark Iocco.
The trend is in keeping with several years of rare shootings in the neighborhoods, police said. The last shooting in the area happened in 2015, when a man shot and killed a security guard a federal court, then turned the gun on himself.
Before that, there hadn't been a shooting in the neighborhood since 2013, when a gunman opened fire in nightclub SOB during rapper Fat Trel's concert. Four people were injured.
Across the city, crime and shootings fell to an all-time low, according to police.
Crime dropped by 4 percent — from 105,921 crimes reported in 2015 to 101,606 in 2016, police said. Shootings dropped by 12 percent — from 1,138 in 2015 to 998 last year.
