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Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States.It is an inner suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the borough of the Bronx.As of the 2020 census, Mount Vernon had a population of 73,893, [3] making it the 24th-largest municipality in the state and largest African-American majority city in the state.
Wakefield is the northernmost neighborhood in New York City ... Neighboring Mount Vernon, ... The 47th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes ...
New York's 16th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives represented by George Latimer.. The 16th district includes a small portion of the northern Bronx (specifically the neighborhood of Wakefield) and the southern half of Westchester County, including the suburban cities of White Plains, Mount Vernon, Yonkers, New Rochelle, and Rye.
Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt laughed when his opponent in Oklahoma’s gubernatorial race, Democrat Joy Hofmeister, said violent crime rates are higher in the state than in New York and California.
The county is the seventh most populous county in the State of New York and the most populous north of New York City. [7] According to the 2020 United States census , the county had a population of 1,004,456, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 55,344 (5.8%) from the 949,113 counted in 2010 .
The state of New York in April gave Mount Vernon 120 days to improve building code enforcement, warning of a possible takeover of those duties.
The boroughs of Queens and Staten Island have historically had lower crime rates compared to Brooklyn, The Bronx and Manhattan. Since 1985, the Bronx has consistently had the highest murder and violent crime rate among the five boroughs. [13] Since 2017, murders in the city have increased bucking the trend.
Crime in New York City was high in the 1980s during the Mayor Edward I. Koch years, as the crack epidemic hit New York City, and peaked in 1990, [4] [174] the first year of Mayor David Dinkins's administration (1990–1993), but then began to decline; the number of murders fell from the 1990 peak to a level close to Koch's worst year of 1989 by ...