Murders in NYC

The New York Times has an interactive map of all homicides in the city since 2003. It's a pretty interesting map, since it's sortable by gender, race, borough, weapon, etc. Most of the murders are in Brooklyn.

One random fact I noticed: there hasn't been a homicide in Central Park in the last 6 years.

In all, there have been 3,402 homicides in the last 6 years, with an average of 540 per year. That's a big number, but interestingly, out of the ten largest US cities, New York has the lowest crime rate (as of '05). Also, 2007 had 478 homicides--the first time since 1963 the city had less than 500.

I love maps. And interactive ones like this are what the Internet is made for.