12/31/2023 0 Comments J train stops in brooklyn![]() ![]() Just in terms of the total number of crimes committed, the overwhelming majority of dangerous stations are the big Manhattan transportation hubs. There are two different ways to look at the amount of crime taking place on the subway: total number of crimes and crime rate related to ridership rate. Of course, just because the subway system is safer, doesn’t mean it’s totally safe (which anyone who’s ever encountered one of the system’s seemingly ubiquitous subway perverts would be happy to tell you), and so the New York Daily News compiled a comprehensive look at which subway stations have the most crime so that we can all be a little more aware as we go about our daily ritual of squeezing together like sardines in an inconsistently air-conditioned tin can and silently (or not so silently) cursing the pole-leaners among us. Today, we have a subway system which is cleaner (despite not being actually, you know, clean), more-trafficked (subway ridership now exceeds 1.7 billion people annually, whereas bus ridership is said to exceed 666 million, a number which surely reflects the fact that riding the bus sometimes feels like journeying through the 7th circle of hell), and safer. Long gone are the days of graffiti-covered Redbird trains and gangs fronted by Wesley Snipes and Michael Jackson roving the abandoned platforms in Hoyt-Schermerhorn. Anyway.) But beyond the astronomical increase in real estate costs, the ever-expanding income inequality gap, the dramatically lowered crime rate, the sanitization of Times Square, and the absence of squeegee men on the upper reaches of the West Side Highway, one of the most notable changes in this city is the evolution of the subway system. (Hell, talk to anyone who’s lived in New York for more than 1 year and you’re bound to get an earful of the same, but you can feel free to discard those stories because, seriously? A year? You know nothing. Talk to anyone who’s lived in New York for more than 20 years and you’re bound to get an earful about how much the city has changed. ![]()
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