New York death stats

Total deaths in 2007, out of total population 8,274,527: 54,073

Leading cause of death to New Yorkers: cardiovascular diseases
Second-leading cause: malignant neoplasms

Of those who died, those who lived in Manhattan: 9,652
In the Bronx: 8,691
In Brooklyn: 15,771
In Queens: 12,721
On Staten Island: 3,238

Those who died of natural causes: 51,116

Deaths reported in January 2007, the highest of the year: 4,905
Deaths in June 2007, the year’s lowest: 4,141

New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent who died in 2007: 4,728
Number of those who resided in the Bronx: 1,826

New Yorkers of Bangladeshi descent who died in 2007: 85
Number of those who resided in Queens: 47

New Yorkers of Italian descent who died in 2007: 5,091
Number of those who lived on Staten Island: 999

Homicides in 2007: 517

Drowning deaths in 2007: 14

Gun murders in 2007: 317

Pedestrians killed in motor vehicle accidents in 2007: 158

Suicides in 2007: 477

Percent decrease in that number from 1988: 14

Of those who were successful in 2007, the number that hung, strangled or otherwise suffocated themselves: 136
Jumped from a high place: 90
Overdosed: 88
Shot themselves: 71
Jumped or lay before a moving object: 41
Used a sharp or blunt object in the offing: 19

Fatalities resulting from occupational injuries in 2007: 81

Of those, the number who were construction workers, firefighters and police officers, and taxi drivers, respectively: 24, 6, 3

Infant deaths per 1,000 live births in NYC: 5.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 live births in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the community district with the highest infant-mortality rate: 9.7

New Yorkers aged 15 to 24 who died in 2007: 165

Of that number, percentage who were murdered: 29.5
Committed suicide: 9.3
Overdosed on psychoactive substances: 5

MORE ABOUT DEATH IN NYC

Per-credit cost of attending the American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, the only funeral service school in New York City: $325

Credits needed to graduate: 69

Feet below ground level that the City of New York requires coffins without a concrete vault to be buried: 3

Years left in which plots will be available at Green-Wood Cemetery: 10

Minimum cost of a single grave (accommodates three people) at Green-Wood Cemetery: $9,000

Pounds of human ash produced by the 5,004 New Yorkers who were cremated in 2006: 25,000

Average price of the no-frills cardboard container used in direct cremations: $50

Number of New Yorkers buried citywide in 2006: 14,467

Year the Embalmers’ Supply Company (ESCO) was founded in Brooklyn: 1886

Amount earned per hour by incarcerated laborers doing burials at the New York City Cemetery (a.k.a. Potter’s Field) on Hart Island: 25–35 cents

Number of local bands on MySpace with death in their name: 153

Year New York’s death penalty was reinstated: 1995

Percentage of New Yorkers who favored life without parole over the death penalty in a 2003 poll: 53

Amount Donald Trump spent on full-page ads calling for the death penalty in the case of the Central Park jogger rape: $85,000

Number of years in prison Brooklynite David Berkowitz (a.k.a. Son of Sam) was sentenced to for killing six people between 1976 and 1977: 365

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