So much for sweating bullets in the summer heat.

The Big Apple so far this year kept up its historic streak of record-low shootings, even after the summer when gun violence typically spikes, NYPD officials revealed Wednesday.

Shootings and the number of gun violence victims plunged to the lowest levels in the city’s history for the nine months of the year, according to newly released crime statistics.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch credited a massive deployment of cops — who were mobilized from desk jobs to foot posts — into high-crime “summer zones” for the sustained decline in gun crime. 3

“Up to 2,300 cops were sent to work in 72 summer zones across nearly 60 communities last May, the largest deployment of its kind in NYPD history,” she said in a news conference.

“But this

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