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Transit union calls for more protection, calls out Manhattan DA and MTA boss after getting 1,000 cops and National Guard troops in subways
Richard Davis of TWU Local 100 put out an ad featuring Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and MTA president Janno Lieber as “Dumb and Dumber” to criticize their response to crime. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.
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Hochul bans use of long guns as National Guard troops check bags at NYC subway stations
The National Guard troops deployed to check bags in New York’s subway stations must do so without carrying around their long guns, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered last week. Hochul, a Democrat, said she would deploy 750 members of the National Guard to the subways to assist the NYPD with bag checks at entrances to busy train stations. “For people who…
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New subway safety plan debuts to protect New Yorkers
Gov. Kathy Hochul has rolled out a new plan to heighten safety in Subway stations, including stationing members of the National Guard across subway stations. Tracie Strahan reports live from midtown Manhattan.
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Good Samaritan slashed at NYC subway station hours after Hochul sends in National Guard
The NYPD is looking for two men who allegedly attacked a good Samaritan who intervened in their harassment of an elderly woman at a Bronx subway station early Thursday, hours after New York’s governor and the head of the MTA outlined sweeping new state efforts, including deploying the National Guard, to address surging subway crime. According to police, the...
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Gov. Hochul announces 5-point subway safety plan
The governor’s plan includes hundreds of members of the National Guard, MTA agents and state police assisting with ramped up bag checks. The governor also pushing for bans on violent repeat offenders and new cameras inside conductor cabins. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.
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Gov. Hochul makes subway safety announcement
New York’s governor and the head of the MTA outlined sweeping new state efforts, including deploying the National Guard, to address surging subway crime in the city on Wednesday. NBC New York’s Tracey Strahan reports.
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NY gov announces new subway safety push, deploys National Guard amid crime spike
New York’s governor and the head of the MTA outlined sweeping new state efforts, including deploying the National Guard, to address surging subway crime in the city on Wednesday, a day after Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to reimplement heightened security measures at select stations across the five boroughs. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her new five-point plan alongside MTA...
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NYPD boosting bag checks amid uptick in subway crime
After a bump in subway crime compared to 2023, the NYPD and the city will be increasing the frequency of bag checks at subway stations. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.
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NYPD to enhance bag checks at certain subway stations amid uptick in transit violence
The NYPD is expected to resume and enhance bag checks at certain subway stations starting this week as part of an effort to cut down on burgeoning crime within the transit system, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday. The Democrat didn’t immediately say which stations would see enhanced security, but according to City Hall, police will be deploying 94 bag screening…
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Subway rider kicked onto subway tracks at Penn Station
The NYPD is searching for the man behind a subway kick that sent a man onto the tracks. The incident occurred Sunday night at 34th Street-Penn Station. Police said the suspect is on the run, but they’re putting out a photo hoping it helps them track him down. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.
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Rider kicked to Penn Station subway tracks in latest transit violence case
A 64-year-old man checking his phone was kicked onto the subway tracks at New York’s Penn Station, the latest in a series of violent incidents plaguing the transit system in recent weeks, authorities say. Fortunately, no one was badly hurt in the kick-to-the-back that landed the man on the northbound A/C/E tracks shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday. The man...
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Subway crime concerns abound after violent weekend
Tracie Strahan reports on subway crime.
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Cancer patient dragged by NYC bus, partially paralyzed, awarded $72.5 million
A Florida woman who says she was struck and dragged by a New York City bus and left partially paralyzed has been awarded $72.5 million in her lawsuit against the city’s transit agency.
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Subway conductor gets neck slashed at Brooklyn station while working
Another MTA worker has been violently attacked while on the job. The A train conductor stuck his head out of the conductor’s window when the train stopped at Rockaway Avenue in Brooklyn when someone rushed up and slashed his neck. The suspect is still on the run. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.
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Man follows woman off subway, tries to rape her in Queens station: police
The NYPD is looking for a man who allegedly followed a young woman off a train and tried to rape her in the subway station this past weekend, authorities say. According to police, the suspect, seen in the surveillance image above, followed the 20-year-old victim off a Queens-bound F train at 169th Street shortly after midnight on Saturday. Once in…
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Subway conductor slashed in neck in Brooklyn amid uptick in transit violence
A subway conductor was taken to a hospital after being slashed in the neck in an apparently random Brooklyn attack Thursday, the latest in a series of violent incidents plaguing the transit system in recent weeks, authorities say. Police swarmed the Rockaway Avenue subway station, on the C line, after getting a 911 call about the 3:40 a.m. attack. Investigators…
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Subway conductor slashed in neck in Brooklyn
A subway conductor was taken to a hospital after being slashed in the neck in an apparently random Brooklyn attack Thursday, authorities say. Romney Smith reports.
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Subway may have dragged human leg from Manhattan to Bronx, source says
Authorities investigating the grim discovery of a human leg along the No. 4 subway tracks in the Bronx over the weekend may have been dragged there from Manhattan, according to a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the case. Workers clearing snow near the tracks between 167th and 170th streets made the grisly discovery around 1 p.m. Saturday in…
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MTA employee on subway doused with ‘foreign substance' in the Bronx, police say
An MTA conductor was doused with a “foreign substance” on a train in the Bronx, police said, in what is the latest violent attack that has taken place in the city’s subway system. The incident occurred on a southbound 4 train Monday shortly before 7:15 p.m. when an unruly passenger threw the unknown substance at the 48-year-old conductor at the…
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MTA employee doused with foreign substance in the Bronx
A passenger on a southbound 4 train threw an unknown substance onto the train conductor, in the latest violent incident to take place in the city’s subway system. Romney Smith reports.