Murder Drops 40 Percent as Other Major Crime Ticks Up in Brooklyn in November

by Kirstyn Brendlen, Brooklyn Paper

Major crime was up slightly in Brooklyn in November, according to the latest NYPD stats, as rape, assault, and grand larceny rose across the borough.

From November 3 to 30, the rate of the seven major felonies — murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto — rose .5 percent, or 13 incidents, compared to the same period last year.

Murder, grand larceny, auto, and burglary dropped, the data show, with murder down 40 percent — from five incidents to three — compared to the same period last year. Murder was down significantly citywide, the NYPD announced on Tuesday, and November 2025 saw the lowest number of killings since the city began keeping crime records.

But rape, assault, grand larceny, and robbery all rose in Brooklyn in November.

Rape was up more than 60 percent, the data show, from 28 incidents in November 2024 to 45 in November 2025.

The crime category rose most significantly in the Brooklyn North patrol, which covers 10 precincts from Greenpoint to East New York. In Brownsville’s 73rd Precinct, rape was up 600 percent, from one incident to seven; it jumped 300 percent, from one incident to four, in both Bushwick and Greenpoint.

On November 6, a man followed a 12-year-old girl into a Williamsburg apartment building and brutally raped her. Cops later arrested 27-year-old Eric McMichael in connection with the attack. A day later, a 24-year-old man was raped by a stranger in a public park in Bay Ridge; and cops are still searching for the suspect in an attempted rape in East New York on November 16.

UCR rape and “other sex crimes,” which are not counted with felonies, were up 63.3 percent and 34 percent, respectively.

Assault was up 13 percent, for a total of 610 incidents, with steep increases in Canarsie’s 69th Precinct, where assault more than doubled from 13 incidents to 28; and in Crown Heights’ 71st Precinct, which saw a 94 percent spike.

Robbery and grand larceny rose slightly, by 1.6 percent and 5.8 percent respectively. Those thefts have spiked sporadically in Brooklyn since the summer.

Outside of the major felonies, shootings rose in Brooklyn, statistics show, even as the city celebrated historically low rates of gun violence. Across the five boroughs, shootings were down 19 percent in November, and through the first 11 months of the year, New York City has broken its all-time low for shooting incidents.

While shooting incidents are down year to date in Brooklyn, they were up 21 percent in November compared to the same period last year. The borough also saw gun violence increase in August, September, and October.

One man was shot and killed inside a Sunset Park nightclub on November 17, while two people were shot and wounded in unrelated incidents just hours apart in Flatlands and East Flatbush on November 23.

In a dramatic incident in Brownsville on November 17, a homicide suspect who had allegedly just shot and killed a 41-year-old man opened fire on police, striking and wounding one before he was shot and killed himself.

Editor’s note: A version of this story originally ran in Brooklyn Paper. Click here to see the original story.

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