The NYPD's summer safety initiative appears to be yielding positive results.

Despite an overall drop in transit crime, felony assaults in New York City’s subway system have jumped 19 percent this year, ...

New York City’s subway system has seen a 19% spike in felony assaults so far in 2025, according to data released by the NYPD, ...

More subway riders have reported being punched, kicked and stabbed so far this year than last, data from the NYPD shows.

Law enforcement has been monitoring an increase in assaults. Overall, subway crime has been decreasing.

Assaults on police officers in the subways surged in recent years as the NYPD ramped up enforcement in the transit system, MTA officials said Wednesday. MTA Chief Security Officer Michael Kemper ...

Kathy Hochul last week requesting data on assaults against transit workers ... aren't driving riders away, with a 9% increase in ridership on subway service over the past year.

Subway assaults often involve strangers, in contrast to similar crimes on the streets, he said. Reeping added that a sizable increase in physical attacks on police officers — which are ...

Major crimes on the New York City subway system are ... The NYPD recorded a 146.5% increase in people being arrested three or more times in one year on felony assault charges, Tisch said.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said she has ordered more officers to patrol the subway trains and platforms ... including incidents of murder, felony assault, robbery and burglary -- decreased ...

Adams says New Yorkers shouldn't allow the latest headline-grabbing subway assaults to fool them ... same people over and over again due to an increase in the number of decline-to-prosecute ...

While violent crime in the subway has fluctuated in the past few years, there has been a substantial increase in key categories since before the coronavirus pandemic. Felony assaults in the system ...