Hate crimes surged in the Big Apple under Mayor Zohran Mamdani this year – with more than half of incidents targeting Jewish New Yorkers, unsettling new crime statistics show.

The startling 9.4% uptick in hate crimes citywide comes even as all seven major crime categories saw sharp declines across all five boroughs – including historic lows for murders and shootings – so far this year, according to NYPD data released Monday.

More than half of hate crimes – 56.9% – were antisemitic, despite Jewish people making up just 10% of New York City’s population, the police department noted.

Hate crime statistics have increased in New York City under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, according to new NYPD data. Matthew McDermott for NY Post Stabbing victim Moshe Grunhaus was attacked near a synagogue in Manhattan last month in a suspected hate crime. Facebook/Lidia Lander

Many Jewish leaders were quick to blame Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel who has accused the nation of committing a “genocide” during the war in Gaza and called for the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“People take their cue from the mayor,” said Dov Hikind, founder of Americans Against Antisemitism and a former state Assembly member from Brooklyn. “He’s creating fear in the Jewish community.”

New York City’s confirmed hate crimes of all types stood at 360 so far this year, with 33 in July alone, the data shows. During the same span last year, there were 329 hate crimes.

Hate crimes against Jewish New Yorkers so far this year increased by 8.5% – 205 year-to-date compared to 189 for the same period in 2025.

The suspected hateful incidents included back-to-back stabbing attacks on the Upper West Side that separately left a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke and an Asian man wounded.

The crazed accused stabber Raul Morales, 51, allegedly screamed “Allahu Akbar” during his deranged spree on July 23.

The attacks prompted a wave of fingerpointing toward Mamdani by many Jewish advocates, especially after he offered little more than a canned response.

“You know, first and foremost, I want to make clear that this is a city where we have no tolerance for hatred of any kind, the hatred of someone on the basis of their faith, their background, natural identity,’’ he said when asked if he had a reaction to the outrage from the Jewish leaders.

After the hate crime data was revealed, City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who is Jewish, called for action but conspicuously didn’t blame Mamdani.

Skiboky Stora was convicted with two counts of assault in the third degree as a hate crime, among other charges, in New York on Feb. 25, 2026. Steven Hirsch for NY Post

“I remain deeply concerned and very troubled by the unacceptable spike in hate crimes, particularly driven by those targeting Jewish New Yorkers,” she said in a statement.

“This data underscores why as the Council’s first Jewish Speaker, my very first initiative was a Five-Point Plan to Combat Antisemitism,” Menin said. “I will not waver in the fight to protect our communities from hatred.”

By contrast, Orthodox Jewish state Assemblyman Sam Berger (D-Queens) argued Mamdani needs to do more to combat antisemitism.

“In his first six months in office, antisemitism has only gotten worse,” he said. “It’s hard to claim progress when hate keeps setting new records.”

Andrew Truelove (circled) spotted lurking behind Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin before storming the studio on July 16. He was charged with multiple hate crimes. TODAY/Youtube

When asked Monday about the hate crime surge, Mamdani said intolerance has no place in New York City. He noted his administration increased the Mayor’s Office of Hate Crime Prevention’s budget by 800%, or $26 million more.

“We know that while Jewish New Yorkers comprise a minority of our population, they continue to comprise a majority of the victims of hate crimes,” he said, during an unrelated press conference in The Bronx. “And that is unacceptable. The work to uproot antisemitism out of this city is one that will continue until we see hate crimes come to an end in the city.”

Other major crimes are experiencing major dips across the board.

Demonstrators at a “End Jew Hatred” rally in Manhattan on July 26, 2026. Michael Nigro for NY Post

In July, shootings decreased 21.3% and were down in every borough. In July 2020, 243 shooting incidents were recorded compared to just 59 this year, representing a 75% drop for the month.

Year-to-date shootings were down 7.5% citywide, with 771 shooting incidents in the first seven months of 2020 compared to just 381 this year.

Murder was down 32.3% in July, and 22.8% for the first seven months of the year.

Burglary, auto theft, robbery, grand larceny and felony assault were also down between 0.4% and 25.3% so far this year.

“This summer, the NYPD was called upon to manage an unprecedented series of major and overlapping events, including the NBA Finals, the World Cup, Sail250, and the largest Fourth of July celebration in the country,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement.

“Through it all, even as the demands on this department reached historic levels, the men and women of the NYPD delivered double-digit declines in major crime and record lows in violent crime across the city,” she said.

She chalked the record lows of violent crime to “our data-driven precision policing policy and the tireless work of the members of the NYPD whose long hours and dedication continue to make New York City safer.”

Counter-protesters rallied to “End Jew Hatred” on July 26 in New York City.

Beyond Mamdani’s anti-Israel stances, he stoked anxiety in the Jewish community with his longstanding refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” and his associations with individuals like his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who previously represented an al Qaeda tanker-bombing pilot.

Mamdani has been a conspicuous no-show at bridge-building events like the annual Israel Day Parade in May, which the mayor skipped to tout his 2029 re-election bid and ride his bicycle.

Moshe Spern, president of United Jewish Teachers, said the surge in antisemitic hate crimes should alarm every New Yorker.

“When one community is being attacked at this disproportionate rate while the rest of the city gets safer, that is not random. It is a failure of leadership,” he said, slamming the mayor over the mushrooming violence unfolding on his watch.

“Jewish New Yorkers have every right to expect that their safety will be treated as a priority, not an afterthought. The mayor must stop the rhetoric that fuels hostility and start treating antisemitic violence with the urgency it demands.”

Mamdani’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

— Additional reporting by Carl Campanile, Matthew Fischetti and Vaughn Golden