NYC shootings keep soaring, up 86 percent over 2020: NYPD data

The gun violence in Gotham more than doubled last week — capped by a wild shooting in Times Square that left a 4-year-old girl among three people shot.

The NYPD recorded 36 shooting incidents with 43 victims during the seven-day period ending Sunday — up from 15 incidents and 16 victims during the same dates last year, according to police statistics released Monday. The weekly tally continued the more than year-long trend of surging gun violence in the Big Apple, which began during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.