NYPD on the Subway.
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A man was found dead inside a subway train in Manhattan Thursday night, hours before at least three attacks with knives were recorded at various locations on the New York Subway on Friday, which this Monday it will resume its traditional 24-hour service, after a year of night closure for coronavirus disinfection and the eviction of the homeless.
The body of a man in his 60s was discovered by a driver aboard a line C train heading north at the station calle 168 en Washington Heights, around 9:23 pm on Thursday. He was slumped in a seat at the time, police said.
Paramedics responded and pronounced him dead at the scene. Police said the man he had no apparent signs of trauma. His name was not immediately released and the medical examiner is pending to determine the official cause of his death, he reported. New York Post.
This year there have been several homicides and natural deaths in the New York Subway, as well as robberies and incidents of violence, some more serious than others.
While overall subway crime, including four of the seven most serious categories, has decreased, felony assaults have increased in 2021. The violence on the Subway led New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to claim last week that the subway was not safe for children.
The Metro registered 2.32 serious crimes – including homicides – per million passengers in March 2021, down from 2.65 the previous month, NYPD statistics show. But both figures are significantly higher than the 1.47 crimes per million users (those who pay for the service) during the year 2019, prior to the pandemic.
NYC’s violence and “mental health crisis” are wreaking havoc on the transportation system, denounced the interim president of transit, Sarah Feinberg, in a letter sent in January to Mayor Bill de Blasio. In February, the city added 644 police officers to the Metro, but an MTA poll in April found that less than half of the passengers (45%) had noticed the additional officers.
Man found dead inside NYC subway https://t.co/xTTXSWnvKE pic.twitter.com/wE1AwEaLrF
— New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) May 14, 2021
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