Adams, Hochul roll out subway safety plan to crack down on homeless people on trains and in stations (Bedford: organic, centers)

[Aeran]

Let's see if this will work or... it will just be the same ole same old. Ironic. As they were giving this press conference someone got stabbed on the L train (first ave stop, I believe) and had to be taken to the hospital.

https://gothamist.com/news/adams-hoc...ontent=2022218

Homeless people riding the subways will now be forced to leave the train at the end of the line and police will ramp up enforcement against spitting, laying down and littering on subways, Mayor Eric Adams announced at a press conference Friday with Governor Kathy Hochul, unveiling the second phase of their subway safety plan.

“No more smoking, no more doing drugs, no more sleeping, no more doing barbecues on the subway system,” Adams said, at a press conference at Fulton Street subway stop Friday morning. “No more just doing whatever you want. No, those days are over … The system was not made to be housing, it’s made to be transportation.”

Adams said people who reach the end of the line will be told they have to leave, and “End of the Line” teams that include police officers will be forcing them to do so. Those patrols will begin on the A,E,1,2 N and R lines, according to NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, who added an additional 1,000 police officers are already on patrol throughout the system each day.

NYPD officers will have a direct mandate to enforce rules against lying down, sleeping, or outstretching, spitting or littering, aggressive behavior towards riders, smoking or open drug use, according to the new plan.

It also calls for adding 490 safe haven and “stabilization” beds — shelters that provide mental health treatment — as well as the creation of new drop-in centers for homeless people at key subway stations through a $100 million state investment. Along with police, the city will dispatch 30 joint response teams that include homeless services and health department workers to conduct outreach to homeless people on the subway.

Police have often used force to arrest and detain homeless people riding subways. Advocates for the homeless said they were alarmed by the mayor and governor’s announcement Friday, fearing that the broader housing goals of the plan would take far longer to implement, while the police enforcement could essentially ramp up overnight.

[Aeran]

Police seek knife-wielding man after Brooklyn-bound L train stabbing

https://www.amny.com/news/police-see...rain-stabbing/

A 22-year-old man was stabbed in the leg after getting into a dispute with another man while riding the Brooklyn-bound L train on Thursday afternoon, according to police sources.

On Feb. 17, officers from the 13th Precinct responded to a report around 2 pm of a stabbing on the L train. According to police sources, a 22-year-old man got into a heated argument with another passenger in his 40s before the older man stabbed the victim in the leg. The suspect fled the train on 14 Street and 1st Avenue, while the victim remained on the subway car until Bedford Avenue where he filed a report.

He was taken to Bellevue Hospital sustaining a non-life-threatening wound.

[90sSitcom]

They have been saying this for the last several years. I will believe it when I see it. Or rather don't see it

[antinimby]

If they will really crack down on the homeless in the subways, then it should work because this is what the city should have been doing all along. I said this a few years ago but plenty of people argued that my position (to kick them out of the subways) was too mean.

Well now we see I was right.

[rgr555]

Hope so.

[2020's YouTube Vlog]

We will see if these effort work out this time.

I could see these efforts leading to more confrontations between NYPD and teenaged PoC in places like the Bronx and Brooklyn than effectively curbing the homeless issue on trains.

But we shall see.

[LOVEROFNYC]

A poster said we should be executed for driving into the city when perfectly good mass transit exists. I will continue driving everywhere until I feel safe taking mass transit. Too many crazies moved into the subway during the pandemic. When I started seeing junkies shooting up in plain sight during rush hour on the train, I knew it was my cue to exit.

[Mr.Retired]

Fill the hole with Sand.



and you thought........................................

[HellUpInHarlem]

Good. I’m bout tired of them myself. They be laid out on the subway seats and nobody sit next to em.

[Aeran]

This guy's sitting next to him. I wouldn't. Maybe it's just for a photo op.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs...sts_po-organic