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Thomas Tracy

Straphanger shot during clash on NYC train hours after Hochul and Adams tout subway crime reduction

NEW YORK — An argument on a Manhattan subway train took a violent turn when one of the straphangers pulled a gun and shot the other rider twice, according to the New York Police Department.

The shooting comes just hours after New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul took a victory lap Friday, touting that crime in the city’s subway system dropped over the last three months.

The 34-year-old victim was on the Brooklyn-bound N train approaching the Canal St. station about 1 a.m. when he began quarreling with a man and a woman, police said.

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