The incident happened in one of the busiest parts of Manhattan
NEW YORK — A woman was apparently pushed to her death in front of a subway train at the Times Square station Saturday, police said.
The victim was waiting for a southbound R train around 9:40 a.m. when she was apparently shoved, according to police.Subway conditions and safety have become a worry for many New Yorkers during the pandemic. Although police statistics show major felonies in the subways have dropped over the past two years, so has ridership, making it difficult to compare.
In recent months there have been several instances of people being stabbed, assaulted or shoved onto the tracks at stations in the Bronx, Brooklyn and at Times Square. “We must restore public trust in our transportation system,” the former police captain said Jan. 6 while announcing a plan to have officers patrolling the street head into subways to do “visual inspections” and have transit officers walk through trains and talk with passengers.Under his predecessor, Bill de Blasio, the city repeatedly said it was deploying more police to subways after attacks last year and pressure from transit officials.
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