NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, joined by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, rolled out a new plan Saturday with a promised police surge to make the city’s 3.6 million daily straphangers stay and feel safer on the subway while providing help to the system’s homeless population.
Hochul, speaking one day after a deranged suspect shoved a man to the tracks in Brooklyn, promised additional funding for a surge of MTA and New York Police Department officers on trains and station platforms, with an additional 1,200 overtime shifts per day added.
“We will do whatever it takes to make our subways safer for riders,” said Hochul, unveiling the “Cops, Cameras and Care” program aimed at addressing the intertwined problems of crime and homelessness.
