Gov. Kathy Hochul says she’ll talk with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg about soft-on-crime policies Gov. Kathy Hochul will meet with embattled Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for the first time on Friday, she told The Post, noting that she’s “monitoring” the controversy surrounding his soft-on-crime policies. But Hochul stopped short of calling for Bragg’s removal from office. “I know full well the powers that the governor has — I’ll be having a conversation very shortly to convey, to let him tell me what his plans are and make sure that we’re all in alignment,” Hochul said during a meeting with The Post’s editorial board Wednesday. The pair will meet at the governor’s Midtown office, according to a source. “I have options, but I will be monitoring the situation very closely.”
DA Alvin Bragg’s Harlem neighbors say they’re terrified of local recent crime It’s been hell in Harlem — the backyard of accused soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. In the past few days alone, the storied neighborhood has seen a series of high-profile crimes, including an off-duty cop shot, a man pummeled and run over by a car in a brutal gang assault and a city transit bus full of passengers hit by a stray bullet in broad daylight. And those crimes come on the heels of the shooting deaths of two young NYPD cops in Harlem late last month. Crime is up nearly 30 percent so far this year in the area. And while the crime rate has risen even more in other city neighborhoods, Harlem residents are shaken to their core, given the recent spate of local crimes grabbing headlines.
Crime up in Nearly Every NYC Precinct The NYPD CompStat numbers show that the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst, Queens, has been battered by the highest jump in crime as of Sunday, with a more than 142 percent increase over last year. The biggest percentage hikes in the precinct were for grand larcenies, with 197 incidents so far this year after just 43 at the same point in 2021; felony assaults, which rose to 59 from 28, and robberies, with 30 this year compared to 18 last year.