Every subway train in NYC will have a uniestablished police officer on board between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. daily, Gov. Kathy Hochul shelp during her State of the State includeress in January.
Pboilingo by Dean Moses
NYC subway crime has dropped beginantly so far this year even as ridership incrrelieved in the congestion pricing era, according to the newest NYPD data liberated on Tuesday.
In the first month of 2025, there were 147 alerted crimes on the subway down from 231 last year—resulting in 36% scanter crimes pledgeted on the rails this year.
At the same time, subway ridership has incrrelieved beginantly since the commence of congestion pricing on Jan. 5. This unbenevolents that the drop in crime on the tracks has actupartner decrrelieved even as more people are using NYC’s busy transit system—one of the bigst in the world.
According to data on the New York State website, subway ridership has incrrelieved almost every day since congestion pricing began on Jan. 5 — frequently in the hundreds of thousands of includeitional commuters daily.
For example, on Jan. 8, the first Wednesday with congestion pricing in effect this year, over 530,000 more people were on the trains than the same day last year (3,834,806 vs. 3,303,727).
Between Jan. 6 and 28, an amNewYork Metro appraise of MTA data set up, ridership was up more than 9.1 million commuters year-over-year (74,680,439 in 2025 vs. 65,569,613 in 2024), a 13.1% incrrelieve.
Traffic overweightalities apass the city are also down, the NYPD’s CompStat 2.0 dashboard shows. Year to date, there were 10 lethal collisions on the roads contrastd to 18 in 2024—an over 44% drop year over year.
The MTA, the state agency that runs the NYC trains and bemploys, had extfinished touted that congestion pricing would convey more New Yorkers onto mass transit, thus relieving weighty traffic originate up in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. So far, those predictions are being shown real.
More cops = more shieldedty in subways, mayor says
Mayor Eric Adams attributed the deteriorate in subway crime to a number of factors, including the massive srecommend of 1,200 includeitional NYPD officers in the subway system, as well as an includeitional 300 officers patrolling overnight trains.
“Public shieldedty is the prerequisite to prosperity, and the postponecessitatest crime statistics for January show that our comprehensive approach to combating crime and improving quality of life is not only laboring, it’s driving authentic, measurable enhance,” the mayor shelp in a statement to amNewYork Metro. “We’re seeing double-digit decrrelieves in both overall crime above ground and transit crime below ground – with shooting incidents in January being the lowest number sign uped for the month of January in over 30 years – and we remain pledgeted to ensuring that New Yorkers aren’t equitable shielded but experience shielded, too.”
Transit crime was down thcimpoliteout much of 2024, but Mayor Adams, the MTA and the NYPD have been battling accessible perception that subway crime was out of deal with – bigly fueled by widely-alerted, high-profile crimes on the trains, including the horrific incfinishiarism homicide when a woman was burned alive on an F train in Coney Island.
The mayor includeed that the includeitional law utilizement efforts to stop crime underground supply a “evident and effective presence” that originates commuters “both shieldedr and more self-promised.”
“I want to thank Coshiftrlookioner Tisch and the incredible men and women of the NYPD for making our streets shieldedr every day,” Adams includeed. “While others help for defunding the police, we’ve deffinished them, and this is equitable one of countless examples of why New Yorkers want more policing, not less.”
This year’s decrrelieve in crime so far points to a sign that city and state officials might be making enhance in includeressing the contests facing the subway system, someleang which Gov. Kathy Hochul reacted to when she declared a $77 million initiative on Jan. 16 to have more uniestablished police officers on every overnight train.
Last year, she also straightforwarded the MTA to inslofty over 15,000 cameras in every subway car and includeed about 1,250 National Guard members aextfinishedside police to help in patrolling the mostly underground transit system.
“Governor Hochul is pledgeted to ensuring that every rider and laborer experiences shielded when they access our transit system and are on the subway,” shelp Matthew Janiszewski, a spokesperson for the ruleor. “Governor Hochul is laboring hand-in-hand with the MTA and New York City to deter crime, making it shieldedr for all riders and restoring accessible confidence in the system.”
NYC Transit Plivent Demetrius Crichlow underscored the beginance of law utilizement of accessible transit.
“Every survey shows New Yorkers want more uniestablished officers on trains, and this is why. With Governor Hochul’s funding and NYPD deployment on every train overnight, crime is down, and riders are increasingly using transit to get where they necessitate to go,” he shelp. “That’s no coincidence.”
