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Subway crime skyrocketed in the first two months of 2024, rising by nearly 20% compared to this time last year — and driven by big increases in grand larcenies, felony assaults and robberies, according to newly-released NYPD statistics. Mayor Eric Adams said the NYPD would quickly move to 12-hour tours to try to halt the burgeoning crime wave, which he blamed on the city’s rollback of its so-called subway safety plan that flooded the underground with cops in 2022. “We saw amazing results,” Adams said during Tuesday comments at City Hall. “Increasing the number of police officers in a subway...

A Big Apple straphanger was repeatedly slammed in the head with a metal pipe at a Queens subway station — the latest example of the recent outburst of violence in the city’s troubled transit system. The latest underground assault took place shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday at the Queensboro Plaza station when a thug walked up to the 31-year-old victim and struck him in the head “multiple times” in an unprovoked attack, according to police. The bearded attacker then fled, leaving the victim unconscious. He was taken to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center to be treated for several cuts...

An apparent innocent bystander was killed and at least five others – including two teenagers – were injured when gunfire erupted on a subway train as it pulled into a Bronx station during rush-hour Monday afternoon, police and law enforcement sources said. Up to 10 shots were fired at the Mount Eden Avenue station after a fight between two groups of teenagers broke out aboard a northbound 4 train at around 4:40 p.m., creating “total pandemonium,” according to witnesses and police. A 35-year-old man was killed after he was shot in the chest, police and sources said. His identity was...

A neglected Bronx subway underpass has turned into a hellish open-air drug market that’s making locals afraid to even walk down the street — and has at least one local pol seeing red. The Kingsbridge D-train underpass has been plagued by rampant drug use since the end of the pandemic, with zombie-like addicts shooting up in public — and no one is doing anything about it, according to residents and City Councilman Oswald Feliz (D-Bronx).

Two men were caught on camera pummeling an NYPD cop in the head and face at a Bronx subway station Monday after the officer and his partner asked the suspects to put out their cigarettes. Kaream McClary, 23, and Izayiah Jessamy, 20, were charged with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, and trespassing over the shocking attack at the Freeman Street subway station around 2:30 p.m., police said. The altercation erupted after two officers requested McClary, Jessamy and a third man stop smoking inside the station — but the trio refused, cops said. When the officers tried removing the...

The maniac suspected of randomly shoving a woman into a moving Manhattan train — leaving her with life-threatening injuries — was busted in New Jersey on Thursday, law enforcement sources said. Sabir Jones, 39 — who allegedly pushed the unsuspecting 30-year-old victim into a departing downtown F train at the Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station around noon Wednesday — was picked up in Newark and taken to a local hospital, the sources said. He was not immediately charged. It came as sources also said Thursday that Jones was believed to have attacked another straphanger at the same Midtown station just minutes...

Frank James will spend the rest of his life in prison after receiving 10 life sentences Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, one sentence for each victim of the April 2022 shooting aboard a subway car at rush hour. "I alone am responsible for that attack," James said in court. "They in no way deserved to have what happened to them." James opened fire on a Manhattan-bound N train in Brooklyn on the morning of April 12, 2022, injuring 10 people.

Subway service on the W line is resuming Wednesday night after it was suspended most of the day following a vandalism spree on Tuesday evening. The MTA said a vandal or vandals smashed 78 windows on 35 trains from the inside. It appears it happened while the trains were in service. Service was suspended overnight Tuesday and for most of the day Wednesday up until the evening commute. So many windows were damaged that officials said they were running out of spare glass to make repairs. By around 11 a.m. Wednesday, 25 trainsets had been repaired, but hundreds of thousands...

New footage of the savage assault on a disabled woman in a Manhattan subway station captures the hulking brute claiming he was trying to help the victim “with your f–king walker” during the beating. The lengthy cellphone video – taken by a transit worker and obtained by The Post Wednesday – allegedly shows Norton Blake, 43, beating 60-year-old Laurell Reynolds with a cane, a belt and then his fists inside the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue subway station early Friday. After he’s done hitting, smacking, punching and kicking the defenseless woman, the suspect yells at his cowering victim that...

The ex-convict who allegedly beat a 60-year-old woman with a cane in a Harlem subway station was cut loose by cops after the heinous caught-on-camera assault — and the officers’ response is now under investigation, The Post has learned. In the now-viral recording, the hulking suspect — publicly identified by cops Tuesday as 43-year-old Norton Blake —bashed Laurell Reynolds, 60, scores of times on her head, stomach, leg, arms, back and hands as she fell to the ground inside the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station at about 3:30 a.m. on Friday. “They should’ve arrested him!” Reynolds, who is...

The daughter of a 60-year-old woman who was beaten with her own cane in a disturbing caught-on-camera assault in Harlem said she’s angry nobody came to help her defenseless mom — as cops identified her alleged attacker as a 43-year-old man with at least nine prior arrests. Laurell Reynolds, 60, of the Bronx was walking through the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station at about 3:30 a.m. Friday when Norton Blake allegedly stripped her cane from her and beat her with it, according to NYPD officials and a disturbing two-minute-long recording of the crime. Nobody stepped in to help...

A stranger pummeled a 70-year-old Manhattan straphanger in the face so badly that he had to be hospitalized — all because the elderly man complained about him rolling a cigarette in the station, cops said Friday. The senior was getting off a southbound C train at the 145th Street station at the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday when he spotted the cigarette-roller in the station and confronted him, police said. It’s not clear whether the attacker actually got to smoke his cigarette, which is against transit rules, but the elderly man was apparently making...

On a recent weekday afternoon, the high-end flagship’s shoe department smelled less like Manolo Blahnik leather and more like a head shop, a stylist told The Post. “It’s jarring when you walk into a high-end department store where you used to smell Chanel perfume and now it’s weed,” the stylist, who requested anonymity, said. (The Post has reached out to Saks for comment). But, she admitted: “Everywhere you go in New York City smells like weed. It’s not just Saks — it’s at Bloomingdales, at the movies … there’s no high-end anymore.” Indeed, brazen New Yorkers are lighting joints on...

A woman robbed a straphanger at knifepoint inside a lower Manhattan subway subway station during Wednesday morning rush-hour, police said. The victim was on the 2/3 train platform at the Fulton Street station around 9:30 a.m. when the mugger flashed a knife at her and grabbed the contents of her purse, according to the NYPD. The suspect then ran off and was in the wind Wednesday afternoon, cops said. No additional information was immediately available. The robbery came the day after a 34-year-old woman was shoved onto subway tracks by a stranger while waiting on the 1/2/3 train platform at...

A train operator was beaten by an unhinged pipe-wielding man, and a straphanger was stabbed by a stranger in separate attacks on the subway system over the weekend, cops said Tuesday. The most recent of the two incidents took place at the 168th Street-Washington Heights station around 11:45 p.m. Sunday when a passenger began arguing with the subway worker as he cleared a northbound C train that was taken out of service, police said. The rider refused to get off the train and flashed a box cutter and a metal pipe at the 37-year-old male worker, who had ordered him...

A century-old water main broke under Seventh Avenue in Midtown, flooding streets and effectively suspending number 1, 2 and 3 subway service through Manhattan. The 20-inch main broke at Seventh Avenue at West 40th Street, just above the Times Sq 42nd St subway station, which quickly flooded just after 3 a.m. Tuesday. The water flowed south through the subway system to the 14th Street station, where it settled above the rail. Number 1, 2 and 3 subway service was "severely disrupted in Manhattan" through the morning commute, creating a travel nightmare for many New Yorkers.

<p>MILFORD, Connecticut (AP) – Sandwich chain Subway said Thursday it will be sold to the private equity firm Roark Capital.</p><p>Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Roark was offering around $9.6 billion for Subway, which is privately owned.</p>

Subway on Thursday ended its drawn-out auction to sell the family-owned sandwich chain by agreeing to a $9.6 billion deal with the private equity firm that owns Dunkin’ Brands. The sale to Roark Capital, which also backs several other fast-food chains through its restaurant conglomerate Inspire Brands, brings to close an era during which Subway was owned by its two founding families for more than 50 years. “The transaction is a major milestone in Subway’s multi-year transformation journey, combining Subway’s global presence and brand strength with Roark’s deep expertise in restaurant and franchise business models,” Subway said in a statement....

It’s not fare. The price of a ride on city subways and buses jumped more than 5% to $2.90 on Sunday, slapping another strain on many of the system’s millions of daily riders. The fare hike, which also includes the MTA’s Metro North and LIRR rail rides, came two weeks after tolls went up on the state agency’s bridges and tunnels.

A teenage girl allegedly slugged an Asian woman riding a Manhattan subway train with her family last week and attacked a witness who was recording her behavior in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. The still-at-large teen was sitting with two other young girls aboard a southbound F train before she allegedly launched the assaults as the train was approaching the West 4th Street station around 8 p.m. Thursday, according to police and a report. The trio of girls were shouting and cursing at the family before one allegedly pulled the hair of the 51-year-old mom, punched...