SUSTAINED DROP · MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTMARCH 2026 BRIEFINGNEW YORK · 55.1K residents

Bronx CD2 — Hunts Point / Longwood Crime Rate Trends — New York

CD2 covers Hunts Point and Longwood. Anchored by the Hunts Point Cooperative Market and Fulton Fish Market, the New Fulton Fish Market and produce terminal complex, the Bruckner Expressway, and the 6 train along Southern Boulevard.

MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT · 24-MO COUNT03 2026 · 7
0132512-mo avg: 10.5
BRONX CD2 — HUNTS POINT / LONGWOODCITYWIDE TREND (RESCALED)-4% 12MO YOY
+40%MoM
-29%12mo YoY
126last 12mo
7this month
01 · TL;DR

March 2026 produced a narrow but structurally meaningful picture for Bronx CD2 — Hunts Point / Longwood. Two categories moved, both as sustained shifts — not one-month dips, but multi-month structural changes in the trailing 12-month window versus the prior year. The signal is concentrated in vehicle-related property crime, and both categories moved in the same direction.

Theft from Vehicle is down 35.0% against the prior 12 months — 145 incidents versus 223 — and Motor Vehicle Theft is down 28.8%, 126 incidents versus 177. Both are classified as sustained shifts, meaning the decline has persisted long enough to register as a structural change rather than noise. Every other tracked category, including Aggravated Assault (down 21.8% over the same window) and Vandalism (down 21.6%), ran within range this month and produced no additional signals.

2 sustained shifts
02 · Notable signals

Notable signals 0

Nothing notable surfaced this month — every category sits within normal range against its baseline.

03 · By category

All categories, last 24 months

Each panel: recent monthly count vs. trailing 12-month context. MoM is the most recent month vs. the one before; 12mo YoY compares the trailing year to the year before that.

Homicidebelow threshold
2024-042026-03
Robbery-2%
2024-042026-03
Aggravated Assault-22%
2024-042026-03
Sexual Assault-14%
2024-042026-03
Burglary+1%
2024-042026-03
Theft from Vehicle-35%
2024-042026-03
Other Larceny-12%
2024-042026-03
Motor Vehicle Theft-29%
2024-042026-03
Vandalism-22%
2024-042026-03
Arson+36%
2024-042026-03
05 · Forecast

What next month likely looks like

Forecasts trained through March 2026, with a likely range we're 95% confident the actual count will fall inside. Categories with too little recent volume — or violent categories at the neighborhood level — show no forecast and are surfaced through signals above instead. See the methodology page for the gating rules.

Aggravated Assault

NO FORECAST

Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.

Arson

NO FORECAST

Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.

Burglary

APRIL 2026
Most likely 18 next month — likely between 10 and 27.
+8% vs 12-month average (≈17.0)

Homicide

NO FORECAST

Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.

Motor Vehicle Theft

APRIL 2026
Most likely 13 next month — likely between 3 and 23.
+26% vs 12-month average (≈10.5)

Other Larceny

APRIL 2026
Most likely 83 next month — likely between 51 and 115.
+5% vs 12-month average (≈79.8)

Robbery

NO FORECAST

Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.

Sexual Assault

NO FORECAST

Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.

Theft from Vehicle

APRIL 2026
Most likely 13 next month — likely between 2 and 24.
+12% vs 12-month average (≈12.1)

Vandalism

APRIL 2026
Most likely 37 next month — likely between 17 and 58.
+10% vs 12-month average (≈34.2)
06 · Context & comps

How Bronx CD2 — Hunts Point / Longwood compares

Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month motor vehicle theft volume — a pragmatic v1 of peer matching. Demographic / housing-stock peer matching isn't built yet (we deliberately don't ingest income or race data alongside crime). Volume similarity has the right intuition: “neighborhoods experiencing comparable motor vehicle theft levels.”

07 · Patterns

Recurring local terms (last 12 months)

Top terms in incident descriptions for Bronx CD2 — Hunts Point / Longwood, excluding generic crime taxonomy. Useful as texture — what kinds of specifics show up here that don't show up elsewhere.

harassmentunclassifiedsubdpetitservicesunclassifiegrandunclassbuildingadministationaggravatedcontrolledsubstancecontemptmenacingcivilianopenpossessionunattendedmisdemeantrafficareasofficerpeacepolice
When does it happen?

Hour-of-day, day-of-week, and seasonality

Distribution of bucketed incidents in this neighborhood across the full analysis window. Useful for routine context — shopping-strip thefts vs. late-night assaults read very differently when you can see when each typically happens.

HOUR OF DAY · ALL CATEGORIES
08651,73012am6am12pm6pm11pm

Hour 0 is mildly inflated by reports without a known time defaulting to midnight — see methodology.

DAY OF WEEK · ALL CATEGORIES
02,1224,245MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
MONTH OF YEAR · ALL CATEGORIES
01,2892,577JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
08 · Methodology

How we built this page

Data → Anomalies → Forecast → Page

Incident data is pulled from SFPD's open dataset, mapped to 10 NIBRS-aligned categories, and aggregated to neighborhood × category × month. Anomalies are surfaced using strict thresholds (~p < 0.01). Forecasts are Prophet with low-count gating; violent categories at the neighborhood level skip the forecast and show rare-event / streak signals instead.

Spike rule: 12-mo total > baseline mean + 2.5σ AND ≥ 20 incidents AND 6-mo confirms. Drop rule: 12-mo total < baseline mean − 2.5σ AND baseline mean ≥ 20. Rare event: any incident in the last 90 days, no prior comparable in ≥ 5 years.