New Yorkers ask: Is today the day someone attacks me on subway?
Anyone who rides the subway these days has these dreadful thoughts: Will today be the day I’m attacked? Will this be the day I’mshoved off the platforminto an oncoming train?
And: Where is our mayor?
At 8.30 am on Thursday, a40-year-old woman was shoved on to the tracksat the northbound 4/5/6 platform at Union Square. Her attacker had been pacing the platform, parts of which are frighteningly narrow, before seeing the 5 train approach and pushing her, from behind, into its path.
She was reported as “lucky” to have survived with minor injuries. I see it another way: She had the presence of mind to roll into the hollow between the two tracks and not move until the FDNY arrived — stuck underneath two cars.
How terrifying.
How predictable.
And how pathetic of Bill de Blasio, a feckless leader who fancies himself a champion of the little guy, the have-nots. Most subway riders now are largely hardworking people and essential workers, doing backbreaking jobs, unable to afford or abide leaving the city, who can’t afford to buy a car let alone take an Uber or a cab. These people are the best of New York City, subject to this daily terror.
Crime in the subway is up. That’s a fact, one de Blasio will surely deny is a fact — as he does every week on WNYC’s “Ask the Mayor,” fielding calls from increasingly
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