# Is Manhattan safe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 4, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-manhattan-safe/969082 "2022-08-04T11:33:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-manhattan-safe/969082/41 "2022-08-06T03:36:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > It also matters greatly how much Faux News the OP or relatives watch. My elderly Midwestern mom (who yes, watches a lot of Fox News) was horrified that her grown grandson was going to visit Chicago. Even though he was going to be in the touristy areas like the Art Institute and the Magnificent Mile. She brought this up multiple times, ignoring my questions on where she’d gotten her information. There was no “information”, just emotions. Oh, the grandson lives on the Lower East Side, in Manhattan… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2022, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-manhattan-safe/969082/42 "2022-08-06T06:27:41Z")
Yeah, I have the same problem with my elderly simpleton in-laws who live in the country (only about 90 minutes from Manhattan). MIL: Well I just think it’s safer out here than where you live in the City. Me: Didn’t your sister from the next town over just tell us a story about having to call the cops because some meth-head wandering into her kitchen last month? (True Story) ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-manhattan-safe/969082/43 "2022-08-06T12:04:21Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > The Ghost of William Houstoun if you mispronounce the street named after him. Or misspell it. (I know, that’s how he spelled it. But the City of New York knows better.) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-manhattan-safe/969082/44 "2022-08-07T02:03:49Z")
> [@digs](#): > > My elderly Midwestern mom (who yes, watches a lot of Fox News) was horrified that her grown grandson was going to visit Chicago. > Even though he was going to be in the touristy areas like the Art Institute and the Magnificent Mile. … Well, any place she gets her information will tell about incidents where folk have been shot in Millennium Park, driveby shootings and car ackings downtown, and ugly scenes on Michigan Ave. So ugly shit DOES happen - even in the touristy areas. No - I don’t feel unsafe in those areas. But I can imagine someone saying, _“Never had gangs of young people shooting guns on Main Street here in Podunk!”_ My personal assumption is that given the pretty huge number of folk who DON’T get shot or robbed in most areas on most days - it is pretty safe. But what do I know? I almost flunked statistics in college! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-manhattan-safe/969082/45 "2022-08-07T03:41:17Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Oh, the grandson lives on the Lower East Side, in Manhattan “the lower east side … it really sucks” -ma dangerously ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-manhattan-safe/969082/46 "2022-08-07T18:26:17Z")
NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday had a story this morning about how there’s a perception that the city is less safe since the pandemic, even among New Yorkers. They note that the statistics don’t actually bear that out, but apparently the perception is there. > **[NYC companies hesitate on in-person work because of attacks on public transit](https://www.npr.org/2022/08/07/1116218340/nyc-companies-hesitate-on-in-person-work-because-of-attacks-on-public-transit)** > > On Wall Street, executives who want workers to return to the office are having to deal with employees who are reluctant because they're worried about crime, and thinking the city is less safe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-manhattan-safe/969082.md?page=2)