New York City Mayor Eric Adams was with New York Governor Kathy Hochul Friday morning at a Manhattan subway station to reveal a new plan that seeks to combat crime in the city’s subway.
Since the announcement, at least 5 people have been stabbed on the subway in just over 24 hours.
The latest attacks add to a growing number of victims. Major crimes in transit are up 65% this year, an average of one victim every four hours, throughout the day.
Both Adams and Hochul acknowledge that people will not return to their offices after COVID-19 and that the city’s economy will not fully recover if people do not feel safe moving around the city. That was the impetus behind the plan. 17 programmed pages to take effect Monday that will add police and mental health teams to the system and more actively enforce laws already on the books.
But it will take time to implement it, and in the meantime, the violence does not decrease.
Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul Unveil Security Plan for NYC Subway Following Increased Crime. Carlos Zapata reports.
Just before 3:00 p.m. Saturday, on the platform of the 3 train at Livonia and Van Siclen Avenue in Brooklyn, a man hit a 20-year-old woman in the back, police said. According to the report there was an argument and the man took out a knife and stabbed the woman three times in her abdomen.
Hours later, around 8:30 p.m., a 24-year-old man was on the mezzanine of the station W. 168th Street in Manhattan when, according to police, two teenagers allegedly approached him and tried to rob him. A struggle ensued and the victim was stabbed once in the leg with a knife. The suspects fled the scene.
Approximately 30 minutes later, at the station W. 116th Street, a 31-year-old man traveling on the 1 train saw two people smoking something on the train. When he allegedly asked the smoker to move, he pulled out a knife and stabbed the man in the arm. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
The two attacks on Saturday night follow two incidents that occurred within the previous 24 hours: A homeless person was stabbed after an attempted robbery early Saturday morning at Jamaica Station in Queens.. In addition, there was another stabbing on Friday night at the station Briarwood en Queens.
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