Not sure why you're singling out Manhattan: Queens and Brooklyn are famously unsafe for packages. Even when I lived in the Sunset (the sleepy half of SF) I had

Not sure why you're singling out Manhattan: Queens and Brooklyn are famously unsafe for packages. Even when I lived in the Sunset (the sleepy half of SF) I had packages go missing. In fact I would argue that if a package can reliably last 8 hours on your porch you don't live in a city (at least for the purposes of this discussion).