Issue
Crime: Looking Back at 2024, and Ahead to 2025
Breaking down New York City’s, and the nation’s, trends in violence and disorder
What can we do about shoplifting, a new urban plague?
Stepping back to see crime in better context and clearer focus.
What the data show
One borough of New York City is especially scarred by violence.
The trends that shaped 2024 in law and disorder.
Lessons from the past on how we do — and don’t — enforce laws underground.
Vital City's first issue looks at the problem of gun violence and how it might be solved.
What is “disorder”? And what should we do about it?
The indelible mark of neighborhoods
How life changes when things get hot
What it takes to reduce firearm violence
How substance use shapes the city
Breaking down New York City’s — and America’s — trends in violence and victimization
Everything about Rikers Island and what replaces it depends on the answer
Research meets the real world
*The long-anticipated change to Manhattan’s streets now at the mercy of politics
The death and life of great American cities (again)
Building better transit
Jails can be safer and more humane
Considering the fix the mayor (and the city) are in, from many angles
Breaking down New York City’s, and the nation’s, trends in violence and disorder
In our first special report, public safety veterans Elizabeth Glazer and Michael Jacobson provide a detailed, data-grounded roadmap to close Rikers Island that would simultaneously:
We asked radio producer Ike Sriskandarajah and artist photographer Azikiwe Mohammed to capture some of the sights and sounds of Brooklyn’s most iconic greenspace, Prospect Park. What they produced is a sonic-photographic essay, a sensory experience of the people, places and natural beauty at the heart of Kings County.