Shootings and the number of New Yorkers who fell victim to gun violence have plunged to all-time lows so far this year — even as the Big Apple contended with its deadliest mass shooting in 25 years, new NYPD crime statistics show.

The Big Apple saw 412 shooting incidents, with 489 victims, during the first seven months of 2025, according to the data, released by the police department this week.

Both are records that comfortably shatter the previous lows for shootings — 426 — and shooting victims — 522 — respectively, set over the same time frame in 2017 and 2018, cops said.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch this week celebrated major drops in crime. Stephen Yang

When the NYPD began tracking such data at the beginning of the CompStat era in 1993, there were a whopping 3,114 shootings and 3,451 victims of gun violence, police said.

“Summer is usually the toughest test for public safety, but the wins that we are celebrating today prove that under Mayor [Eric] Adams’ leadership, we are not just passing the test, we are resetting the curve,” said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch during a Monday event outlining the numbers.

The declines come as Adams tries to salvage his re-election bid against Democratic socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani by focusing on public safety – and bashing his rival’s policing proposals and past disparagement of the NYPD. 

Crimeshot up after Adams took office in 2022 amid social upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic. And it wasn’t alone – major cities across the US saw violent offenses such as murder surge during the pandemic and reverse 30-year declines.

But crime – including homicides – has steadily declined across New York City and the nation alike with COVID in the rearview mirror, although murders are still above pre-2020 rates in more than 60% of cities, the Council on Criminal Justice recently found.

The national trend toward lower murder rates doesn’t take away from the Big Apple’s successes, said Jeff Asher, a crime data analyst.

“It’s obviously fantastic, it’s very positive, it’s definitely a national trend that we are seeing across the country,” said Asher, co-founder of the data analytics firm AH Datalytics.

Overall major crime in New York City for the first seven months has steadily declined in each of the last three years, NYPD data reveals.

Those months during Adams’ first year in office had 72,369 crimes reported. Compared to that time frame, this year so far saw a 5% dip with 68,740 of those so-called index crimes reported.

Mayor Eric Adams has tried to highlight his record on public safety to boost his re-election campaign. Stephen Yang

But this year’s overall lower crime numbers, while welcome, still fall far behind the 53,089 in the first seven months of pre-pandemic 2019.

Index crimes include: murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto.

Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York, credited four very specific reasons for the improving crime statistics.

The NYPD’s “relentless focus” on seizing illegal guns is bearing fruit, as is the department’s precision policing strategy that focuses cops on ever-smaller areas where crime is concentrated, he said. 

The city investing millions of dollars into crime prevention organizations and district attorneys speeding up prosecutions is paying off as well, Aborn said.

“There are all these factors coming together which are beginning to pay off in a big way,” Aborn said. 

NYPD officials likewise credited illegal gun seizures and precision policing – and argued a record number of gang takedowns is also driving down violence.

Shootings hit record lows for the first seven months of the year. Robert Mecea

“Violent crime always spikes in the summer, but we haven’t seen that,” said Christopher Herrmann, a former NYPD crime analyst supervisor and current John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor.

July was also the 10th straight month that major crime fell, with a 5.6% overall drop compared to the same time last year, data shows.

Shootings and victims of gun violence also hit the lowest levels for any July on record in the city, with 75 and 92, respectively, Tisch said. The previous July record lows for shootings and shooting victims were 79 and 102, respectively, in 2017.

“This comes just weeks after we had the safest July 4th weekend for gun violence ever recorded,” Tisch said.

The span also included the July 28 massacre by crazed gunman Shane Tamura, who killed four people — including NYPD Officer Didarul Islam — inside a Midtown skyscraper before turning the gun on himself.

“While this incident will forever be a stain on our city, it happened against the backdrop of a larger, more hopeful picture — one where the brave men and women of the NYPD continue to drive down crime,” Adams said in a statement.

Most major felonies also showed dramatic drops in July compared to the same month in 2024, the data shows.

Robbery fell 7.5%, felony assault dropped 8.2% and burglaries plunged 14.2%, according to the data.

“Murders were down by 49%, and in our subways, excluding the two pandemic years, it was the safest July in recorded history,” Tisch said.

The span included the horrific July 28 mass shooting in Midtown. Robert Miller

Rape, however, continued to show a troubling increase.

The vile, historically underreported crime was up 33%, with 193 rapes reported citywide in July compared to last year, data reveals.

The NYPD has pinned the increase on a state law passed in September 2024 that expanded the legal definition of rape to better reflect the full range of sexual assaults.

The crime data’s release came on the eve of National Night Out, an anti-crime event Tuesday that brings police and communities together in cities and towns across the US.

Adams was set to attend National Night Out events in all five boroughs, while Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa was slated for a trio of events across Queens.

Mamdani, who recently tried to put his “defund the police” past behind him, was scheduled to attend an event with state Attorney General Letitia James at a Brooklyn NYPD precinct.

The socialist has a lot of mistrust to overcome within the NYPD if he’s elected mayor, said Herrmann, the John Jay professor.

“That’s going to affect morale,” he said. “The pendulum is going to swing with a supportive mayor and semi-supportive city council to a non-supportive mayor and semi-supportive council with a new police commissioner.”

– Additional reporting by Joe Marino