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NYC straphangers hug the walls inside subway stations in wake of spiraling transit crime
Nypost ^ | 01/19/2025 | Georgia Worrell

Posted on 01/19/2025 11:41:35 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Violent crime has created a grim new normal in Big Apple subway stations — the platform wallflower.

Skittish straphangers are steering clear of the edge — and pinning their backs to the wall as they await their train, terrified they’ll become the next victim of a random shove onto the tracks, riders told The Post.

On two afternoons recently, The Post witnessed hundreds of riders hugging the walls inside stations at East 86th, East 77th, East 68th, East 59th and East 51st streets, and West 18th Street, 14th Street-Union Square, and Wall Street.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; assault; crime; dystopia; hug; inside; newyork; nyc; spiraling; stations; straphangers; subway; tracks; transit; violence; wake; walls
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The crazy part is these people will continue to vote democrat.
1 posted on 01/19/2025 11:41:35 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Everything Democrats touch turns to crap. They want us all using mass transit but yet won’t provide the necessary police protection.


2 posted on 01/19/2025 11:46:14 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ChicagoConservative27

While horse face hocul has a dance party on stage during her assembly meeting


4 posted on 01/19/2025 11:50:29 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Most people don’t make a connection between voting Democrat and rising crime. It’s up to Republicans and conservatives to make that case in political campaigns.


5 posted on 01/19/2025 11:50:56 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27; SaveFerris; Larry Lucido
Is nudity a crime?


6 posted on 01/19/2025 11:53:00 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. the )
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To: Telepathic Intruder

And then there are those liberal judges.

A lunatic assaults someone on the street or in the subway. The police track the lunatic down and arrest him. The judge releases him. The lunatic heads right back to the street or subway.

Rinse and repeat.


7 posted on 01/19/2025 11:53:10 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why don’t they try playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart in the subways in high risk areas and times? Works for shopping malls.


8 posted on 01/19/2025 11:54:08 AM PST by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Looking at how open those platforms were built and have been all those years reminds me of how we used to not lock our doors and close&lock our windows in our homes, or lock our cars or even always remove the keys and how our guns were on display in cabinets in our living rooms and everyone knew we had them, America used to be open and trusting.


9 posted on 01/19/2025 11:55:24 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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10 posted on 01/19/2025 11:56:01 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gundog

There is good nudity and bad nudity. I am bad nudity.


11 posted on 01/19/2025 11:57:31 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Leaning Right

Compare it to highspeed trains in Japan. Taking one is as safe as your back yard, and the only ones causing trouble are foreigners who don’t respect the culture. The benefits of diversity.


12 posted on 01/19/2025 11:57:36 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey New Yorkers, you voted for this! Embrace the suck.


13 posted on 01/19/2025 12:01:49 PM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: grumpygresh

**Why don’t they try playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart in the subways in high risk areas and times? Works for shopping malls.**

Heavy metal is more in tune with the mood.


14 posted on 01/19/2025 12:03:34 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Either the New York Republican party, if there is one, or the national party, has an opportunity here to post some billboards.

“Remember to keep voting Democrat if you like the thrill of maybe being pushed onto the tracks. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow.”


15 posted on 01/19/2025 12:07:44 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Unfortunately true.

However, I seriously don’t understand why people would stand so close to the edge of the platform in the first place. Even without the danger of being deliberately shoved onto the tracks, there’s just the simple fact that in a large, bustling crowd, someone could be accidentally bumped and end up in the same position.


16 posted on 01/19/2025 12:12:56 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The thing I find funny (not the humorous kind of funny) is that if a business used a similar system for moving employees between buildings or to and from the parking lot without safeguards against falling or being pushed on to the tracks, OSHA or other government agencies would fine or shut them down.


17 posted on 01/19/2025 12:23:55 PM PST by sjmjax
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To: ansel12

Add to that loaded guns hanging in the back window of the pickup truck while the truck was running, unlocked with the keys in it. The driver in a bar having a few. I recall that scene many times as a kid. No one cared. No guns stolen. No one got shot. Trucks were never stolen.


18 posted on 01/19/2025 12:25:09 PM PST by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Straphanger is slang for subway rider.

Popularized in the 1960s, the term harkens back to a more innocent time in which men would yield their seats to women and children, and hang on to a strap suspended from the ceiling of the train car.

Seasoned commuters would be able to hang one hand to a strap while reading the newspaper with the other hand. Newspapers were everywhere on the subway back in those days. This was how the average workingman got his news. Though mostly, the sports section held the most interest. How did the Yankees do and lets check the box scores from the other games?


19 posted on 01/19/2025 12:30:09 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A big part of the problem could be addressed by deporting millions.


20 posted on 01/19/2025 12:30:38 PM PST by SpaceBar
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