A recent result of violent Big Apple -metro attacks has straphangers in fear again -even if MTA Brass blames the Trump administration for blowing the flames.
Midropolitan Transportation Authority member Gerard Bringmann complained on Monday about the image of the American transport secretary Sean Duffy of the Metro as dangerous and driven through the crime.
“Personally, I just get tired of hearing all this from Secretary Duffy about how unsafe our system is and yet the testimony here is that we are bending back to make our system as safe as possible,” Bringmann said during an MTA -public safety meeting. “Apparently they don’t get the message,”
But while bosses from Transitbureau maintain the metro’s, are among the safest urban systems in the US, everyday New Yorkers told the post that it is the MTA who does not receive the message.
Debbie Fuchs, 68, of the Upper West Side has been taking the metro for 30 years and said that crime is worse than ever.
“I’m Bang S – without catching the metro,” said Fuchs Monday. ‘I am always looking for the crazy people. You are never relaxed on the train. I’m afraid to be put on the track.
“I am not close to the edge of the platform. I will remain at a pole and I will hold on. I will not trust anyone in the metro,” she added. “The crime in the metro has become worse in the last two years.”
Another Manhattanite who asked not to be identified, said thanks, but no thanks.
“I used to get the metro every day. Crime got a lot worse and I stopped catching completely,” she said. “There is enough crime above the ground without exposing yourself underground. I would go back to the metro if I had a great, large bodyguard.”
Duffy has been another critic and last week that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s congestion -pride plan, which aims to push more New Yorkers to a risky metro system, was ‘liberal insanity’.
“She doesn’t drive in the metro, she has a detail that drives her around,” Duffy snarled. “So she may not care about the experience of MTA riders, but she should do that.”
In a report at the weekend, the function revealed that crime attacks in the transits system have so far increased by 9% this year, and a stunning 55% in the same period in 2019, according to NYPD data.
In one of the newest incidents, a 29-year-old man was pushed in the side of a number 2 train in a station in West 96th Street and Broadway, senting him to the Bellevue hospital with non-lifferring injuries.
The suspect fled the station and did not go to court, said the sources of law enforcement.
But on Monday, MTA chairman Janno Lieber said that crime is under control in the New York City system, of which he said it is much safer than many other large cities.
He said that the Duffy agency sent a 20-page report with details about safety and security improvements.
“In contrast to some of the things that are being thrown around, the MTA per capita is one of the very safest transit systems in the United States,” he said. “You are nine times more likely to be the victim of a crime crime in the Houston of Minneapolis or Dallas system. I think it is eight times more in the Chicago system. We are not in competition.
“We don’t put anyone down, but you have to look at the statistics,” he added. “And according to those standards, New York is very safe. We have made that point time and time again.”
MTA Police Chief Thomas Taffe said that the total crime in the city Subways has fallen by 2.2% since March and so far by 18% decrease in this quarter.
Taffe said that there are now more than 135,000 surveillance cameras about the transits system, including trains, metro, bridges and tunnels – 17,000 more than in February 2024.
