I am even scared to walk through my car at night on the kiss and ride parking lot at the metro station, where I need to park going to and coming back from work, and as far as I know, a lot of women have the same feeling. And it's not New York even. You don't have these feelings for nothing, you know. There ARE enough incidents that justify being scared.  

Then on the other hand, if you happen to be not white and in Germany and you happen to have to take the S-Bahn in Berlin or Hamburg at night, you might happen to be encircled by a very scary and violent Neo-Nazi skinhead crowd that has no fear to beat you up. There are also violent other groups aside from German skinheads, but I don't name them.