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in CrimeKathy Hochul proposes wider MTA ban on harmful individuals in NYC subways
ALBANY – Judges might ban extra harmful individuals from New York City subways and buses beneath a budget-tied proposal pushed by Gov. Kathy Hochul amid broader efforts to spice up security after a series of violent incidents last year. The proposal would develop a 2020 law that allows multiyear bans for individuals convicted of sexual crimes […] More
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in CrimeMTA employee shoots man throughout argument in Brooklyn subway station
An MTA employee shot and critically injured a person who threatened to assault him and his coworker inside a Brooklyn subway station Tuesday evening, police stated. The taking pictures unfolded contained in the Union Street R-train station on the border of Gowanus and Park Slope simply after 9 p.m. amid a dispute between two MTA employees and a 39-year-old straphanger, […] More
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in CrimeUnhinged suspect beats MTA employee with instrument at NYC subway station
An unhinged attacker bludgeoned an MTA employee with a hammer-like instrument inside an remoted workplace at a Manhattan station early Tuesday, authorities mentioned. Assistant Train Dispatcher Mohammad Quader, 51, was contained in the room on the L practice station at West 14th Street and Eighth Avenue round 2 a.m. when the 29-year-old suspect, later recognized as Alexe St Fleur, […] More
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in CrimeStraphanger robbed by trio who reduce his pockets on NYC subway: cops
A person was robbed at knifepoint by three goons who reduce his pockets on a subway headed from Manhattan to Queens on Sunday morning, police mentioned. The 29-year-old sufferer was on a No. 7 practice close to Junction Boulevard when he was approached by the trio, cops mentioned. “Give me your cash!” one of many […] More
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in CrimeCreep allegedly gropes woman, 14, on Bronx bus
A perv groped a 14-year-old woman on a Bronx bus this week, authorities mentioned Tuesday. The teen was driving an MTA Bx11 bus because it approached the intersection of Shakespeare Avenue and Edward L. Grant Highway in Mount Eden round 3:30 p.m. Monday when the creep grabbed her higher thigh over her clothes, cops […] More
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in CrimeAnti-farebeating turnstiles are preposterous and dear — simply implement the rattling regulation
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Janno Lieber says the reply to the company’s $500-million-a-year farebeater problem is jumper-proof turnstiles. That figures. Anything however imposing the regulation is everyone’s go-to reply to the crime dragging down New York’s cities lately. Thus it’s an excessive amount of to count on the top of New York’s sprawling, on-the-verge-of-going-broke mass-transit […] More
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in CrimeMTA chief needs violent criminals banned from NYC trains and buses
Violent criminals must be banned from MTA trains and buses, MTA CEO Janno Lieber urged Monday. At a Manhattan Institute breakfast, the company chief made observe of a present “subway banning legislation that applies to slender circumstances.” “We’ve bought to develop it to extra circumstances,” Lieber stated. New York legislation restricts transit bans to intercourse […] More
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in CrimeFelonies surge 40% on NYC subways in comparison with 2021 — however MTA touts extra cops to stem crime wave
Felony crimes — together with homicide, rape and theft — have surged on the subway system by 40% to date this yr in comparison with 2021, in line with newly launched NYPD stats. At least 1,917 felony crimes have been reported from January by way of October — up from the 1,367 tallied throughout the […] More
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in CrimeMTA bus driver punched in unprovoked Queens assault
An MTA bus driver was punched within the face in an unprovoked Queens assault over the weekend, cops mentioned. The 42-year-old driver was working a Q18 bus at twenty seventh Avenue and Fourth Street in Astoria round 5 p.m. Sunday when a passenger slugged him for no obvious purpose, police mentioned. The attacker ran off […] More
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in CrimeUnless Hochul will get severe on crime and dysfunction, the MTA will fall off a fiscal cliff
It’s official: New York City as we all know it’s dead, except our crime- and disorder-loving leaders in Albany can proper the ship on our disastrous no-bail regulation and different criminal-justice “reforms” which have killed the MTA’s post-COVID recovery and have it facing a fiscal cliff. The company is dropping some $200 million a month, […] More
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in CrimeExtra subway cops result in practically double variety of arrests, MTA CEO Janno Lieber says
The head of town’s transit system claimed Monday that the boost in cops on subways is already combating crime underground — with arrests practically doubling previously week alone. “The stage of police presence in our system has dramatically elevated’’ since Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced final week that 1,200 cops a day […] More
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in CrimeLetters to the Editor —Oct. 31, 2022
The Issue: The MTA’s choice to rent personal unarmed safety guards to patrol the subways. The MTA has discovered one other technique to waste taxpayers’ cash by hiring turnstile guards (“MetroGUARD,” Oct. 28). What precisely are they going to do to cease fare beaters? They can’t arrest anybody and sure received’t bodily cease anyone due […] More
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