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No-one shot in New York last weekend for first time in 25 years

An armed NYPD officer stands guard during a parade in New York City in June: Getty/Kena Betancur
An armed NYPD officer stands guard during a parade in New York City in June: Getty/Kena Betancur

New York City had its first full weekend without a single shooting in 25 years, officials have said.

Not one person was shot in the metropolitan area over the weekend - the first time New Yorkers recorded a gunshot-free weekend since 1993.

Officials said there were no shootings with victims reported in the five boroughs for all of Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The last shooting before the weekend was on Thursday morning in Brooklyn, when a 25-year-old man was shot in the stomach, NBC New York reported.

The gunfire free record was broken Monday afternoon when a man was shot in the Bronx. He is expected to survive.

NYPD chief Rodney Harrison took to tTwitter with the news, saying: "This past weekend NYC had no shootings, a milestone we haven't reached in over a decade."

Mayor Bill de Blasio boasted about the record while addressing the NYPD graduating class Monday morning, saying they were a "winning team for sure."

"A city of 8.6 million people, not a single shooting for three days,” he said at the department’s graduation ceremony yesterday, adding it was an “extraordinary” achievement and credited the NYPD for the streak.

According to NYPD figures there have been 600 shootings across the city so far this year, a 2 per cent drop from the same period in 2017.