While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into the beginning of the 1990s.
Sementara kebangkitan industri keuangan sangat membantu memulihkan kesehatan ekonomi kota pada tahun 1980-an, tingkat kejahatan di New York terus naik sepanjang dasawarsa tersebut dan awal 1990-an.