#Six shot in NYC despite NYPD’s claims that gunplay is down

Six people were shot as gunplay continued across the city Monday and early Tuesday, cops said.

The latest incident came around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, when a 29-year-old man was blasted in the torso on West 117th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd in Harlem, police said.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Late Monday night, a 26-year-old man was shot in the hip around 10 p.m. on Fulton Street near Carlton Avenue in Clinton Hill. He was taken to Methodist Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The suspect took off, heading west on Fulton Street, cops said.

About a half-hour earlier, a 55-year-old man was shot in both legs as he attended a barbecue on East 51st Street near Tilden Avenue in East Flatbush around 9:30 p.m.

A white van pulled up, and someone inside opened fire before taking off, cops said.

Additionally, a man who was gunned down in Hollis, Queens Saturday night died on Monday, cops said Tuesday morning.

Rahiem Williams, 37, was blasted in the head on 191st Street near Jamaica Avenue just after 9 p.m., cops said.

He was rushed to NYC Health & Hospitals/Queens, where he succumbed to his injuries, police said.

No arrests have been made.

In total on Monday, five people were shot in five separate incidents, according to preliminary numbers released by the NYPD. One person was fatally shot — a 27-year-old man in East New York.

Four people were shot in two separate incidents on that day last year, which was a Saturday.

In a Monday morning NY1 interview, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said the city — recently battling surging shooting numbers — is beginning to see a turnaround.

“When you look at June, July we had weeks approaching 70 shooting incidents,” the top cop said. “We came in with 28 [last] week. We still have a long way to go. But in terms of getting individuals off the streets that are carrying guns, that’s our total focus right now.”