NYC antisemitic hate crimes soar while other crimes hit record lows
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Anti-Semitic incidents in New York City nearly tripled in January, while other crimes hit record lows, according to police data released Tuesday.
The NYPD said anti-Semitic hate crimes were up 182%, with 31 incidents reported compared to 11 incidents in January 2025. These incidents accounted for more than half of all hate crimes in January; It rose to 56, an increase of 152% compared to the same period last year.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of the New York and New Jersey area called the 182% increase “staggering” in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“From swastikas on a playground in Boro Park to a car crashing into Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights, New York’s Jewish community is on edge,” said Scott Richman, ADL regional director. “In response, we call on Mayor Mamdani to quickly identify the next head of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism and appoint a leader who will both represent this diverse Jewish community and counter antisemitism in ALL forms.”
SPEAKING AFTER CHABAD AUTHORITY JEWISH CENTER WAS HIT BY A CAR WHEN NYPD INVESTIGATED THE REASON
A general view shows the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in New York on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. City officials said a man deliberately and repeatedly crashed his car into a building in the incident, which is being investigated as a hate crime. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
While hate crime incidents have skyrocketed, the NYPD has reported that shooting incidents, shootings at victims, and murders have reached record lows; making it what the NYPD described as the “safest January ever” in these categories.
The data shows the city saw 40 shooting incidents and 47 shooting victims in 2025 and 2019, compared to all-time lows of 50 and 56, respectively. The number of homicides fell to 12, breaking the previous record of 22 in 2018 and 2022.
The city’s overall crime rate dropped 6.7%, with declines in burglary, robbery, auto theft, grand larceny and felonies, according to the data.
MAMDANI PROMISED TO FIGHT FOR EVERYONE, BUT SCRAPED ORDER. JEWISH STUDENTS SAY THEY ARE DEFENDING THEMSELVES
Before leaving office, former Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order linking the city’s definition of antisemitism to that of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which labels antisemitism as “hatred against Jews.” The IHRA provides examples of what falls within its definition: “[d]denial of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination” and “[a]applying double standards by demanding [Israel] behavior not expected or demanded from any other democratic nation.
On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rescinded the executive order adopting IHRA’s anti-Semitism standard. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images, File)
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However, Mamdani canceled the adoption on January 1, his first day as mayor.
Fox News Digital’s Preston Mizell contributed to this report.
