#NYC subway rider describes deterioration of system amid crime wave

#NYC subway rider describes deterioration of system amid crime wave

“#NYC subway rider describes deterioration of system amid crime wave” Like many other straphangers, Pamela Dayton feels increasingly anxious about taking the subway. The 62-year-old actress, who lives in Hudson Heights, rides the A train and relies on the 181st Street station in Manhattan, where a crazed Rigoberto Lopez allegedly stabbed two straphangers last weekend. Authorities…

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#NYC’s real homeless problem is its mad political pieties

#NYC’s real homeless problem is its mad political pieties

“#NYC’s real homeless problem is its mad political pieties” Will the murder spree of the homeless, allegedly by another mentally ill homeless man, finally bring the city to its senses, and move it to start protecting the public and get horribly dysfunctional people the help they need? Rigoberto Lopez, 21, is being held without bail, accused…

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#MTA worker fired after using sick time for getaways

#MTA worker fired after using sick time for getaways

“#MTA worker fired after using sick time for getaways” His luck ran out. An MTA worker was fired after abusing paid sick leave over several years to spend extended weekends gambling at a casino in Atlantic City, according to a report from the office of Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny. The now-former employee — a traffic…

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#Soaring crime is killing NYC’s subway system

#Soaring crime is killing NYC’s subway system

“#Soaring crime is killing NYC’s subway system” Two more straphangers met their gruesome end on Gotham’s subways over the weekend, bringing the transit-murder total in just over a year to eight. Before 2020 and 2021, it took five years for eight murders to occur on transit — and that was with much higher ridership.  “The events…

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