The New Year started off with a bang — with nine people shot in the course of five blood-soaked hours, police said.
There were four victims in The Bronx, three in Brooklyn, one on Staten Island and one in Queens. All survived.
The spike in gun violence comes on the heels of a record low number of shootings for 2012 — 1,372 through Dec. 30, according to NYPD data. It was a significant drop from the 1,420 incidents logged in 2009.
The gunfire first erupted at around 2 a.m. when two people were blasted in separate incidents.
A 32-year-old man was shot in the stomach in the lobby of a White Plains Road building in the Castle Hill section of The Bronx, cops said. He was in stable condition at Jacobi Medical Center.
At around the same time, a 19-year-old man was blasted in the back on Irving Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, cops said, and was rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in stable condition.
An hour later, a 24-year-old man was popped in the buttocks after a fight broke out between a large group near Jerome Avenue and West Fordham Road in the Fordham Heights neighborhood of The Bronx, cops said.
The victim, who has been uncooperative with detectives, is being treated at Columbia University Medical Center, cops added.
At 4:30 a.m., a man was shot in the legs at 10th Street and 38th Avenue in Astoria, Queens, about a block away from the Queensbridge Houses, cops said. He is at New York Hospital Queens with non-life-threatening injuries.
On Staten Island, an intoxicated 42-year-old man was blasted in the stomach on Osgood Avenue at about 4:45 a.m., cops said. His brother initially picked him up, but he was later loaded into an ambulance and driven to Richmond University Medical Center, cops added. He is expected to live and has refused to help investigators, cops added.
At 5 a.m., a woman took a bullet in the arm at the Butler Houses in The Bronx, cops said. She was transported to Lincoln Hospital.
Just before 6 a.m., a man shot in the stomach was dropped off at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, cops said. He was in critical condition and underwent emergency surgery. Investigators have yet to interview him about the violence that left him wounded, cops added.
There were two 7 a.m. in different boroughs shootings.
A man was shot in the Mott Haven section of The Bronx, cops said. He is in stable condition at Lincoln Hospital.
And a man was plugged in the stomach at the Van Dyke Houses in Brownsville, Brooklyn, cops said. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital and is expected to live.
Police also used their weapons yesterday, with an officer squeezing off a single round at a suspect near the Brownsville Houses in Brooklyn just before 2 a.m., cops said. No one was injured and a suspect was taken into custody.Additional reporting by Kirstan Conley