Kathy Hochul posted a photo on social media showing her riding a train after the shooting, and Mayor Eric Adams pledged to increase patrols in subway stations. The next day, he encountered a crowded yet quiet platform on his commute into Manhattan.
On Monday, estimated ridership was 3.1 million, according to the MTA, which operates the system.ĭan Dzula, who lives four blocks from the station, stayed home Tuesday after receiving an alert on his phone about the shooting. Typical daily subway ridership fell from 5.5 million riders to less than a tenth of that.īut as more people return to offices, ridership is increasing. Public officials say the subway system is crucial to the city's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, which saw many New Yorker avoiding mass transit during its peak. Yet the sprawling system, with nearly 500 stations, largely remains like the city streets themselves: Too big to guard and too busy to completely secure. Police and security officials have made many attempts to harden the city against such attacks, putting officers on trains and platforms, installing cameras and even doing rare spot checks for weapons on passengers entering some stations. Much is still unknown about the attack, but it was a searing reminder of the city's unyielding battle with gun violence and the specter of terror-like attacks that hangs over New York City - and particularly the subway system that is its transportation backbone.
Authorities on Wednesday afternoon said they arrested a suspect, Frank R.
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