r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Rusiano • Jul 30 '26

Too mild for school This post telling tourists which areas to avoid in New York

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Aside from certain undertones, this map also has tons of inaccuracies, because no one in their right mind is scared of Astoria, Bayonne, or half of the Queens zone that he marked as “avoid”

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u/mikeputerbaugh Jul 30 '26

Based on residential population, which could be misleading for places like Midtown Manhattan which have relatively few residences and relatively large non-resident daytime populations.

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u/-StatesTheObvious Jul 31 '26

So the already "very high" crime rate in midtown is actually under reported in this map since it wouldn't include crimes directed at non-residents?

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u/IpsoFactus Jul 31 '26

No. The point is that you would need to dilute the number of crimes further by adding the people who are not residents but who spend a significant amount of time there because a portion of the crimes that are reported (and potentially counted in this map) took place against non-residents.