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The political prosecution of Daniel Penny in New York City may have failed, but the chilling effect it will have on public safety, especially in the subway system, will resonate for years.Penny is a former U.S. Marine who found himself in the same subway car as Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man with a history of violence. According to witnesses who were in the same car, Neely was acting erratically and saying things such as, “Someone is going to die today,” and “I want to go to Rikers. I want to go to prison.” Penny put Neely in a...

A Brooklyn straphanger was randomly shoved onto subway tracks by a woman in a gray trench coat Sunday morning, cops say. The 43-year-old victim was standing on a southbound platform at the Kosciuszko Street station in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9 a.m. when his unidentified assailant in a long coat suddenly pushed him onto the J train tracks, the NYPD and police sources told The Post.

A heavyset Hispanic woman — seen by five witnesses pacing and mumbling to herself — pushes a helpless man in front of an oncoming Flushing-bound No. 7 train in Queens. She was caught on tape while fleeing the crime scene: police. A MAN WAITING for an approaching No. 7 train in Queens died a gruesome death Thursday night when a young woman darted up behind the helpless straphanger and pushed him onto the tracks, police said. The unidentified victim was crushed by the first and second cars of the Flushing-bound train about 8 p.m, as his murderer hustled down the...