Exclusive | Inside the only Manhattan voting district that favored Trump in the 2024 presidential election: It used to be a safe city

This slice of Gotham is seeing red.Just one district in Manhattan chose Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in last week’s election — becoming the first in the borough to vote for a Republican presidential candidate in at least a decade.The sole pro-Trump district in Manhattan is composed of just one apartment complex, Knickerbocker Village, a majority Chinese-American affordable housing development in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side, which voted roughly 51% Trump to Harris’ 48%.“We all voted for Trump, I even donated to his campaign,” Knickerbocker Village resident Shirley Tang told The Post Wednesday.Public safety, the economy and the open use of drugs in the neighborhood were some of the largest issues that finally pushed the voting district at Knickerbocker Village – which overwhelmingly leaned blue in 2016 and 2020 – to the red side of the political spectrum, several residents said.“There’s too many homeless, too much drugs.My neighbor died last year from a drug overdose – the hallways are full of drug addicts and we can’t say anything,” Tang, 50, said.“Our properties have no safety, our lives have no safety,” Tang added.

“People are crazy and no one will put them in a hospital … Nothing has been common sense, and with Trump winning we’re finally going back to common sense.”Another resident, Susan Dye, 60, also noted “the way the city has changed under Democrats” as a reason why more than half of Knickerbocker Village voted Trump.“It used to be a safe city, and it’s not a safe city anymore, and it’s like this all over the country,” Dye said.“There is no law anymore.

Donald Trump is tough.He will bring the law back.”In in the NYPD’s 5th precinct, which includes Knickerbocker Village and swaths of Chinatown, Little Italy and the Bowery, major crimes are up 8.6% compared to the same time last year, per NYPD data.

Subway crime was up 43.2%, petit larceny up 41.9%, robbery up 39.6% and rape up a wh...