After an attacker shoved a woman into the side of a moving subway train at a Midtown station last week, critically injuring her, Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Janno Lieber wrote in The Post of his riders: “We cannot expect them to put up with random acts of violence.”
But we do. Nearly two years into a joint governor-mayor effort to secure the subways, they’re still twice as dangerous, per rider, as they were in 2019.
Wednesday’s subway pushing wasn’t the only random attack last week.
Moments before he shoved the woman at 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue, just beneath MoMA, the suspect, Sabir Jones, punched a man so hard that he broke his jaw.
A day later, a different suspect repeatedly stabbed a passenger at another Midtown station.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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