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artappraiser — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:42:13 +0000

In reply to ‘I Am Shaken’: Spate of Violent Subway Attacks Unnerves Riders (in NYC)

oh and thanks alot Brooklyn yuppie protesters, NOT:

[...] in recent months, many transit workers and riders worried that they were seeing fewer officers in the subway.

Chief O’Reilly said the system was the subject of renewed focus in recent weeks.

Before the presidential election, “a lot of our transit resources were used topside to help with demonstrations and protests,’’ she said at an authority board meeting on Wednesday, “I can let you all know, as of today, 99 percent of those resources are now back in transit.”

People who didn't understand my antipathy to huge Manhattan protests pushing breaking curfew instead of just agitating online at home don't get how this huge mess of a city in a very small geographical area manages to work for just regular people trying to live their lives.

You have to have this kind of thing in the NYC subways

or certain elements start to think they can take advantage of the weak and vulnerable there, and people get hurt and killed. And the less crowded it is down there, the more they are needed.

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artappraiser — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:53:18 +0000

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It was 2 p.m. on Tuesday, what would normally have been a busy weekday as Thanksgiving neared. Alex Weisman, a stage and television actor, stepped off a train at a subway station on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and was punched twice in the face by a man who then fled.

Caption:Alex Weisman, an actor, was
punched by a stranger on Thursday as he
got off a subway train in Manhattan.
Credit: Credit...Simbarashe Cha
The assault injured Mr. Weisman’s skull in two places and tore one of his retinas.

“There was nothing else I could have done to protect myself,” Mr. Weisman, 33, said on Friday. “I am shaken by this.”

The day after Mr. Weisman was attacked, a man was shoved onto the tracks at the Bryant Park station after arguing with another man whom the police believe was a panhandler. On Thursday, a woman was pushed off the platform at the Union Square station by an emotionally disturbed man who appeared to be homeless. She lay between the tracks and avoided serious injuries as a train passed over her.

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Now, as the financially battered transit agency that runs the system warns of major service cuts and fare hikes if it does not get substantial federal aid, the rise in crime has stirred fears among riders and complicated officials’ efforts to coax people back to the subway.

In recent months, the agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo controls, has criticized the New York Police Department for not deploying more uniformed officers to the system.

But the recent rash of attacks has also led transit officials to press the city to provide more support for mentally ill people who seek shelter on the subway.

“This city has a mental health crisis right now,’’ Sarah Feinberg, New York City Transit’s interim president, said at a news conference on Thursday. “We have got folks in this city who desperately need mental health care. I’m desperate for this mayor or the next mayor to take it on because we’ve got a long way to go.” [....]

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