Their fears strike a dark note. Subway musicians said they’re worried about violent crime as assaults surge underground — even while they vied for prime performance spots at MTA-held auditions ...

Assaults are surging this year in the subway system — and critics fear it’s getting worse with overcrowding caused by congestion pricing. Felony assaults are up 9% so far this year ...

Using a “professional, fact-based approach,” transit officials highlighted that felonies in the subway system last year were down — while acknowledging that assaults have risen ... preceded the agency ...

Last fall when Cincinnati asked for ideas for what to do with its empty, 2.2-mile abandoned subway tunnel system, many Enquirer readers and social media commenters had the same response ...

While major crime on the subway is rare for the MTA’s millions of daily commuters, serious assaults in transit more than tripled between 2009 and last year, from about 150 to 540, according to ...

Whether defending New York’s controversial congestion pricing scheme or opposing more-aggressive policing, progressive activists have a favorite talking point in response to ... victimizations on the ...

A Bronx man targeted Spanish-speaking migrants in the city’s subway system, promising them jobs but instead subjecting them to a string of horrifying sexual assaults, prosecutors charged Wednesday.

“We need to prioritize public safety over empty political ... being assaulted. Illegal immigrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil is charged with setting a straphanger on fire on a Brooklyn subway train.