Battery Park is a neighborhood of 16,000 residents in Manhattan, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Battery Park in Manhattan safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A means crime in Battery Park is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Battery Park sits near the middle: 60% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 40% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A+ against B+. Manhattan as a whole grades C+. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A to B+; see the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 877 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
60% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Battery Park as a whole, and 40% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Battery Park scores 877.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Battery Park, Manhattan, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Battery Park in Manhattan, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Battery Park
Theft is a strength. Battery Park grades B+ for property crime, but theft grades A, better than in the neighborhoods where 66% of Americans live.
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Manhattan as a whole, 79% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
How Battery Park compares within Manhattan
Every part of Battery Park where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Battery Park run from A to B+; 52% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Battery Park has less crime than 29 of the 30 neighborhoods in Manhattan. It covers much of the Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, and Financial District areas.
Is crime going up in Manhattan?
Reported crime in Manhattan as a whole has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 15% and property crime up 58%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.7 to 6.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 15 to 23 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Manhattan. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Manhattan
Violent, US
Property, Manhattan
Property, US
2016
+1%
+4%
+1%
+15%
2017
-4%
+4%
+1%
+12%
2018
-4%
+0%
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
+4%
+1%
-8%
2021
+10%
+6%
+8%
-10%
2022
+28%
+5%
+44%
-6%
2023
+15%
+2%
+61%
-7%
2024
+15%
-4%
+58%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Battery Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Battery Park has about 22 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 41% less than the US as a whole and 70% less than Manhattan as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft makes up about 51% of crime reported in Battery Park. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Manhattan
The New York City Police Department polices Battery Park; these figures cover New York as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In New York as a whole, 50% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (50%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (79%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (79%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (50%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Battery Park compares with nearby neighborhoods
Battery Park has the least crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Battery Park apart: it has a Walk Grade of A+ (99 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 206 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft and robbery than places with only one of them, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 100% of residents here live in walkable areas.A+ (99 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Battery Park: A- (73 of 100).206 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.100% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.169 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 94% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Battery Park
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Battery Park about $376 a year per household, 69% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $5.3 million a year, or $331 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Battery Park means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Battery Park, Manhattan, NY average a SchoolGrade of A-: 71% of students test proficient, against 60% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Battery Park on SchoolGrade
