Overview
- Officials reported subway major crime down 5.2% year over year and about 14–15% below 2019 levels, with 2025 on pace to be the second safest non-pandemic year after 2009.
- The NYPD said November transit crime fell nearly 25% from a year earlier and described the past five months as the safest stretch on record outside the pandemic years.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul said her upcoming executive budget will include $77 million to sustain increased patrols, maintaining daily deployments of roughly 600 officers.
- Ridership continues to rebound, up nearly 8% this year with more than 1.2 billion trips, and post-pandemic records were set again on Dec. 11.
- Safety measures also include infrastructure upgrades such as platform barriers at 115 stations, expanded cameras and brighter lighting, while officials acknowledged recent high-profile incidents and said one crime is too many.