By The newspaper
Jun 22, 2024, 01:17 AM EDT
A 39-year-old man was stabbed to death yesterday inside a New York Subway station in Upper Manhattan.
NYPD officers responded to the 175th St A Line station in Washington Heights just before 6 pm Friday in response to reports of a stabbing. The victim was transported to NYC Health + hospitals in Harlem, where she was pronounced dead.
The victim was on the mezzanine when he had a dispute with an attacker. The reason for the fight remains under investigation, he said. ABC News.
MTA communications director Tim Minton said in a statement: “This was a senseless attack that spread from the street to the subway, and we are providing full cooperation in the investigation, confident that MTA police “New York will quickly identify and arrest the perpetrator.”
Service at the 175th St station was disrupted and delayed for a few hours in both directions as the NYPD continued its investigation.
A trains are running with delays in both directions after an NYPD investigation at 175 St concluded.
A trains have resumed stopping at 175 St in both directions.
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No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Since taking office in January 2022, Mayor Eric Adams, former NYPD, announced several times that the number of police officers in the chaotic NYC Subway would be doubled. But the violence has continued. Two sexual attacks on women ages 16 and 50 were reported this week at stations in Manhattan and both suspects remain at large.
This year at least three people have been shot to death in the subway. Additionally, at the end of March five people were fatally run over on the New York subway in separate incidents in an alarming stretch of just 72 hours in the middle of Easter.
Gov. Kathy Hochul in March deployed 750 National Guardsmen along with 250 state and MTA police to search passengers’ belongings at the busiest stations, citing violent incidents such as the near-fatal slashing of a Metro driver’s neck and the postal worker kicked onto the rails. A woman was also amputated when she was pushed onto the tracks by her Hispanic boyfriend.
Then the “Operation Fare Play” plan announced that it would deploy about 800 officers to stations to address fare evasion and related crimes, theoretically indicating a greater focus on transit safety, he said. NBC News.
A survey released in March found that New Yorkers are generally dissatisfied with the quality of public transportation and many are afraid to use it, citing safety concerns. Criminal acts, accidents, jumps onto the tracks and delays due to failures are frequently reported.
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